This report is based on the vision that the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) advocates for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In preparing this report, the MBAE asked us explicitly what it would take for Massachusetts to have the best-performing system in the world in within 20 years. In the field of public education, Massachusetts has often - sometimes spectacularly - led before. By creating the best education in the World, it would undoubtedly do so again and provide better opportunities for all its citizens