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Knodel, Philipp; Martens, Kerstin; Niemann, Dennis – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
Education policy has undergone transformation in many countries over the last decade. In this article, we focus on the effects of the most significant international initiative in secondary education, which is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We analyse two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Achievement Tests
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Smith, George; Exley, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
Claims are often made in British education about the extent to which policy reforms have been "borrowed" from overseas. Based on interviews with senior civil servants and HMI, this paper addresses the extent to which such claims apply to central government educational policy-making at school level in England between 1985 and 1995. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Public Schools, Interviews