A GROUP of headteachers from south east Wales visited the USA as part of British Council Wales’s International Education Programme last week.
John Kendall, headteacher of Risca Comprehensive School, Christopher Parry, headteacher of Lewis School, Pengam, and Jonathan Wilson, headteacher of Duffryn High School, Newport stopped by Washington DC and Boston, Massachusetts, to look at work being done there to raise standards of education.
Massachusetts is one of the highest performing states in the US, but it aspires to be among the best in the world.
The group spent two days in Washington, where they teamed up with a group of headteachers from Northern Ireland, and three days in Boston.
The group will share its findings with partner schools and the Headteachers’ Conference 2015.
The visit is organised by British Council Wales and funded by the Welsh Government.
While in Washington DC they went to the British Embassy and the US Department of Education; in Virginia they toured Glasgow Middle School and Ballou High School; in Massachusetts they visited Harvard University and the Boston Latin School, as well as the Massachusetts Academy of Maths and Science, Worcester Polytechnic University and Worcester Technical High School.
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