This report compares the performance of 15-year-olds in the United States in PISA against the global patterns and trends.

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 in the United States.

This report presents a summary of the trends in Mexico’s performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and considers them in relation to the PISA target established by the Mexican government.

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 in the United States.

Andreas Schleicher - initiator of PISA and an international authority on education policy - offers a unique perspective on education reform.

This fourth volume of PISA 2012 results examines how student performance is associated with various characteristics of individual schools and school systems.

This report presents examples that might be useful for Japan from other countries with consistently high-performing education systems.