This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy from their reform trajectories.

This report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century.

This is a set of internationally competitive performance standards in English language arts, mathematics, science and applied learning at the 4th, 8th and 10th grade levels. The standards are no longer in print, but can be downloaded here in PDF form.

In 1990, a commission chaired by former U.S. Secretaries of Labor Ray Marshall and William E. Brock published the third, and in many ways, the most alarming in a series of reports about the plight of the U.S. work force.

The Report of the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, from the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy