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Klees, Steven J.; Ginsburg, Mark; Anwar, Hiba; Robbins, Melanie Baker; Bloom, Heidi; Busacca, Cameron; Corwith, Anne; Decoster, Brendan; Fiore, Amanda; Gasior, Stephanie; Le, Hang M.; Primo, L. Heidi; Reedy, Timothy D. – Comparative Education Review, 2020
The World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) purports to benchmark developing country education systems against global best practices. SABER covers 13 topics, called "domains," and has produced over 16,000 indicators of what the Bank considers best practice and applied them in over 130 countries. Yet this…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Benchmarking, Educational Development, Best Practices
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Houston, Don; Paewai, Shelley – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
Internationally, quality assurance schemes persist despite long-standing dissatisfaction and critique of their impact and outcomes. Adopting a critical systems perspective, the article explores the relationships between the knowledge, power and meanings that stakeholder groups bring to the design and implementation of quality assurance systems.…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Power Structure, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Miller, Peter M.; Brown, Tanya; Hopson, Rodney – Urban Education, 2011
In this article, we suggest that communities must explore alternative leadership ideologies, actors, and venues to make meaningful academic and social improvements in our cities. We examine how themes from Paulo Freire's critical ideology can help expand our conceptualizations of educational leadership and facilitate pragmatic responses to complex…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Educational Improvement, Social Change