The implication is that the yardstick for educational success is no longer simply improvement against national standards, but against the best-performing education systems worldwide. The first volume - Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for the United States (OECD, 2010) - high I ighted insights from the education systems of a selection of top scoring and rapidly improving countries as measured by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The following reports analysed Ihe contexts, recent reform paths and performance of the education system, drawing lessons for Mexico (OECD, 2011), Greece (OECD, 2011), japan (OECD, 2012), and the Canary Islands, Spain (OECD, 2012). The focus of these reports is on how countries are reforming their education systems not only to produce better learning outcomes, but in particular, to ensure that their students acquire Ihe skills needed for the unpredictable labour market of the future.