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Chung, Jennifer – Educational Research, 2016
Background: International achievement studies such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have an increasing influence on education policy worldwide. The use of such data can provide a basis for evidence-based policy-making to initiate educational reform. Finland, a high performer in PISA, is often cited as an example of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Models
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Rönnberg, Linda – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This paper explores how "social democratic" Sweden initiated and implemented choice reforms that attracted the interest of "liberal" England. By studying how English media framed and portrayed the Swedish free school "export" from 2008 to 2014, this paper aims to describe and discuss how a market-oriented policy idea,…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Achievement Tests, Low Achievement, Stereotypes