With many countries ranked higher than the U.S. in primary education, now is the time to reassess current norms and investigate how the U.S. can revitalize its education. Surpassing Shanghai provides much-needed strategies for raising the bar in the U.S.

Explores the education systems that are leading the world in student performance to find out what strategies are working. Developed from the work of the National Center on Education and the Economy, which has been researching the education systems of countries with the highest student performance for more than twenty years, this provides a series of answers to the question of how the US can compete with the world's best.