"The Education Policy Outlook, the OECD’s analytical observatory of education policy, is a collaborative effort between OECD countries and economies, the OECD Secretariat, and invited organisations, as well as all actors working within participating education systems, to help students achieve their potential. This report was prepared by the Education Policy Outlook Team (Diana Toledo Figueroa [Project Leader], Christa Rawkins, Emily Qing, and Hugo Marques de Sousa). It was prepared under the responsibility of Paulo Santiago, Head of the Policy Advice and Implementation Division, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General. The team also benefitted from exchanges and feedback from colleagues at different stages of the report: Etienne Albiser, Luka Boeskens, Eric Charbonnier, Esther Ferreira dos Santos, Lawrence Houldsworth, Jonathan James, Stéphanie Jamet, Leila Loupis, Jan Maarse, Tali Malkin, Katharina Meyer, Jason McGrath, Anna Pons, Nóra Revai, Simon Roy, Claire Shewbridge, Karine Tremblay, and Samo Varsik. Ameline Besin provided editorial and administrative support, with communications input from Sasha Ramirez-Hughes, Duncan Crawford, Eda Cabbar, Rachel Linden, Kevin Gillespie, Anna Wahlgren, Kristen Hinkle and Della Shin. (...)"