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Tarlau, Rebecca – Comparative Education Review, 2017
This article analyzes the transfer and 15-year policy trajectory of Colombia's "global best practice" "Escuela Nueva in Brazil." This program, initially transferred to Brazil in 1997 with the help of the World Bank, was largely unknown for the first decade of its life span. Then, between 2008 and 2011, "after" the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Program Descriptions
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Merelman, Richard M. – Comparative Education Review, 1975
Author attempted to describe the school's efforts at maintaining the particular pattern of social class relationships characteristic of an industrialized society. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Diagrams, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Neave, Guy R. – Comparative Education Review, 1985
British higher education has failed to move beyond elitism and endorse the mass model expected during the early 1970s. Examines government funding; differences in administrative practices, including student selection, between "private" universities and "public" polytechnics; government policy assumptions about student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Maddox, Richard – Comparative Education Review, 1994
Describes Aracena (Spain) and its educational history. Compares the experience of schooling and community from the perspectives of middle-class and working-class students. Explores social and cultural factors that may explain why middle-class students are more likely than working-class students to continue their education despite similar…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cultural Context, Educational Attainment, Educational Change