How do teachers motivate students in the Singapore school system? How do they level the playing field between rich and poor students? How do they handle behavioral problems? Are they obsessed with testing?

Andreas Schleicher weighs in on what the US and other nations can learn from some of the high performing education systems that are doing this.

As part of our on-going Global Search for Education series, we shall be occasionally showcasing quality practices in school and community programs from which we hope schools around the world will learn and take inspiration.

We can't pry our kids' fingers off their electronic devices by fiat, but we can channel their desires for communication and companionship into more productive endeavors.

When we stand here, concerned about a global education for our students, what we should be discussing is how to transform all of our schools for the future, not simply how to rearrange the same pieces again and again.