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How can schools prepare students to address the challenges of inequality and climate change? How can different groups collaborate to improve education drawing on the insights of comparative analysis and research? The twenty-five chapters in these two volumes provide answers to those questions. Drawing on the work of a hundred Harvard graduate students in the course ‘Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective’, in collaboration with educators in many schools and school systems around the world, the book illustrates the power of an analytic approach to examine the challenges facing education systems, and to draw on insights from comparative research, to systematically identify avenues to improve education so that students can improve the world. Developed over three decades teaching graduate students at Harvard, the book illustrates also a pedagogical approach to learn education policy analysis by doing it. A reminder that universities are at their best when they engage their students in service of society, seeking to understand complex problems and collaborating to solve them.