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Louis Volante; Paola Mattei – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Education reform efforts stemming from the Programme in International Student Achievement have strengthened in recent years, particularly in response to the growth of global references societies -- high achieving educational jurisdictions such as Finland, Hong Kong-China, and more recently Estonia and Singapore. Despite political rhetoric,…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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T. J. D'Agostino – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
In the face of ideologically driven inquiry and advocacy, debates about school choice and public-private-partnerships in education have produced more "light than heat." Although scholars have recently emphasized the need for a greater focus on the particulars of policy design, limitations of existing frameworks have inhibited rigorous…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Cultural Pluralism
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Feniger, Yariv – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
This study examines the influence of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1999 results on mathematics education policy in Israel. Analyzing various documents, the study shows how these results transformed policymakers' discourse regarding mathematics education. In order to achieve improvement in Israel's ranking, the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Achievement Tests
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Borgnakke, Karen – Ethnography and Education, 2017
Meta-ethnography and systematic review of qualitative research are needed but also challenged by the link to the evidence movement's models and PISA-traditions for measuring learning effects. For reflections on the perspective for meta-ethnography it means to reconstruct the methodological argument almost divided in a "Before and After…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Meta Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries
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Grek, Sotiria; Ydesen, Christian – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
Drawing on archival sources, interviews, and research literature, this article offers new insights into the making, structure and long-term effects of the International Educational Indicators (INES) programme of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The article argues that INES was crucial in setting the OECD on the…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Global Approach, Educational Policy, Scientific Research
Lund, Birthe – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
The state has been known as the major socio-political attribute of the Nordic model. Nordic pedagogic progressiveness has been internationally inspired which can be seen in the student centred learning tradition, the prevailing professional autonomy for educators and in democratic values as important parts of Nordic education. This paper analyses…
Descriptors: Innovation, Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries, Creativity