WORLD CLASS: HOW TO BUILD A 21ST CENTURY SCHOOL SYSTEM!

In a world where the kind of things that are easy to teach and test have also become easy to digitise and automate, the skills that will be required are the skills that underpin the arts and culture.... teamwork, communication, planning, creativity, problem solving, organisation, imagination, awareness and a sense of responsibility. Skills that will enable us to harness the opportunities of the 21st century to shape the world for the better. 

If our children are to thrive and succeed, tomorrow’s schools will need to help them think for themselves and work as team members with empathy and understanding. What will it take for schools to be able to do this? Andreas Schleicher, initiator of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and an international authority on education policy, has accompanied education leaders in over 70 countries in their efforts to design and implement forward-looking policies and practices. While improvement in education is far easier to proclaim than achieve, in this book Schleicher examines the many successes from which we can learn. This does not mean copying and pasting solutions from other schools or countries, but rather looking seriously and dispassionately at good practice in our own countries and elsewhere to understand what works!