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This special issue discusses how top Asian education systems (namely, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai) continue to reform themselves toward 21st century learning. The papers delve into issues such as systemic structures and mechanisms, leadership, curriculum and assessment, and teachers’ professionalism in transforming students’ learning dispositions, skills, and knowledge. International comparative studies, for example the 2007 and 2010 McKinsey reports, identified factors associated with high quality teaching and learning, and a good education system. These factors relate to students, teachers, classrooms, schools, and systemic issues. Students need to be equipped with 21st century skills, which go beyond knowledge to include values and dispositions (Barber and Mourshed 2009). Quality teachers are essential to enact 21st century learning (McKinsey and Company 2007, 2010; Mourshed et al. 2010). Classroom practices emphasize knowledge building, adapting, and applying knowledge to real-life problems (Barber and Mourshed 2009). Moreover, well-informed school leaders provide teachers with resources and autonomy to design and adapt curricular, teaching, and learning for students (Mourshed et al. 2010). Effective systems continuously adapt to change. Systems are aware of its context as it moves from policies to implementations to achieve quality learners (Barber and Mourshed 2009). This special issue draws attention to policies and strategies that Asian systems have attempted to remain relevant both presently and for the uncharted territories of the future. It examines how education systems are impacted by interrelating contexts of school, societal demands, and history. It tries to understand how enacted reforms have aligned education systems to 21st century education goals. Papers here discuss each system and (in some instances) compare with other systems by tracing specific or combination of issues relating to the:

Toward 21st Century Learning: An Analysis of Top Performing Asian Education Systems’ Reforms