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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
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Arreeman, Inger Erixon – European Educational Research Journal, 2014
In Sweden, and in most other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, post-16 education is a general requirement to succeed in adult life. By the late 2000s, after about two decades of policies for student choice and publicly funded free schools, students' results in the Programme for International Student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Track System (Education)