Today, examples of rapid, non-linear progress--sometimes called leapfrogging--are evident in a number of sectors. Often, these instances are most obvious in the developing world, where in telecommunications or banking, for example, whole phases of infrastructure and institution-building that other countries had to go through have been by-passed by nations that got a later start down that road. Many African countries never systematically invested in laying phone lines, yet today access to cell phone service on the continent has grown so rapidly that in many cases communities are more likely to be connected to the outside world via cell phone service than to have access to electricity or running water. Likewise for banking: Instead of focusing on expanding physical branches to reach the many communities and families who lack access, people across the developing world are relying on mobile money--transfers and payments via text message--which grew out of innovations in Kenya. Could this type of non-linear progress happen in education? New data demonstrates that there has never before been a more urgent need for it. At the current rates of educational progress, by 2030 half of all the world's youth in low- and middle-income countries--more than 800 million young people--will lack the basic high-school-level skills needed for work and life. This trend is especially worrisome at a time when developing countries need to rely less on natural resources and more on educated populations to create economic growth. Current calculations forecast that half of the world's jobs--over 2 billion--are at risk of being lost to automation in the coming decades. The aim of the report is to share insights on how governments, civil society organizations, educators, philanthropic investors, and members of the business community can seriously consider the prospect of rapid, nonlinear educational progress, and to reflect on what more needs to be done to make leapfrogging in education a reality. The report explores this topic in five sections: (1) Why Do We Need to Leapfrog? (2) What Do We Mean by Leapfrogging? (3) Can We Leapfrog? (4) How to Leapfrog; and (5) The Potential to Leapfrog. [This report was written with the assistance of Adam Barton.]