Building a world-class learning system

For more than three decades, NCEE has been leading major advances in American education, helping to build a better, more equitable public education system that prepares all students to thrive in a changing global economy. It has done this by studying education systems both domestically and around the globe to surface best practices and emerging innovations that can inspire American policymakers and practitioners to action. The NCEE asked Geoff Masters, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and an international expert on educational assessment, to take a broad look at the learning systems in a small set of jurisdictions that have long performed well on the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The question we posed to him was, what do these different education systems—British Columbia, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong and South Korea— have in common now, and as they look into the future?

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