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In this paper, Smart Schools in Malaysia and Iran will be examined and compared to understand what opportunities and barriers still exist for improving the value and access of these schools. A smart school is a learning institution that uses non-traditional means of instruction, teaching, and learning where school management is focused on helping students cope with and leverage changes brought about by, the information age. The smart school program will be examined for both the state-sponsored public sector (state schools) and privately funded sector (private schools). Globalization requires a more practical education system in which outputs can work in complicated situations with modern instruments. Many developing countries prefer to establish an education system with Smart Schools to achieve education quality closer to developed countries. Successful smart schools’ requirements are different from traditional schools in curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teaching-learning material, management, visions, and stakeholder engagement. Malaysia successfully established this system from early 1996, and Iran has tried to also establish a smart school system since 2002.