Views from Global Top Performers on the Future of Education

What is the future of education? What should it be? What can it be? How are policymakers in top PISA-performing education systems thinking about the future of education?  

The High Performing Systems for Tomorrow (HPST) is a three-year partnership among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE), and a group of education system leaders from five jurisdictions that performed at the top of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). They are British Columbia, Canada; Estonia; Finland; Hong Kong; and Singapore. The goal of the project was to consider the impact of digitalization and other global trends on the future of work and civil society; explore what this means for what students should learn and how they should learn it, and consider how this might change the role of educators and the design of public education systems.