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Lewis, Steven – Comparative Education, 2017
This paper examines the development and administration of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Schools--a new testing instrument of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development--to demonstrate the relevance of heterarchical processes to educational governance. Drawing suggestively across new "relational"…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Administrative Organization, Achievement Tests
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Young, Natalie A. E. – Comparative Education, 2018
International schools are commonly depicted in the academic literature and popular press as offering elite educational credentials to an elite, oftentimes international, student body. In this paper, I draw on a case study of a Canadian international school to argue that a new form of international school is emerging in China--one that offers a…
Descriptors: International Schools, Academic Failure, Case Studies, Foreign Countries