World's top systems: a round-up

June's Prichard Blog work took a sustained look at How the world's top-performing systems come out on top, an important report from McKinsey & Co that puts teaching quality front and center.

Michael Barber, a McKinsey partner and former key player in England's move into those top ranks, spoke to the Prichard Committee late in the month, and addeitional posts discussed his take on related ideas and included a brief look at English school inspections as a tool for developing consistent teaching quality.

Here's a one-stop list of our complete set of posts on those international models:

• Top performing systems (worldwide) (June 13)
• Monitoring schools in top performing systems (June 13)
• Top systems, learning communities, and SB 1 standards (June 14)
• Top sysems and pre-service teacher training (June 15)
• Top systems and teacher debt (yes, this one hurts) (June 15)
• Top systems, starting teacher pay (June 16)
• Total spending in top systems (June 17)
• Top systems and teacher recruitment (June 21)
• Top systems and leadership (June 21)
• Prichard press release: Bold action for education improvement (June 22)
• Top systems: teaching quality or failure (June 24)
• School inspections (English edition) (June 25)
• Beating the odds in English high schools (June 28)
• Performance pay or consistent teaching (June 28)

As with past round-ups, I plan to update this post with future items as this discussion rolls on.