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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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Limage, Leslie J. – Comparative Education, 2007
The absolute priority given by UNESCO to the promotion of universal literacy is understood as a key policy driver shaping the Organization since its inception in 1946. Grounded in human rights, the commitment has taken concrete form in many and diverse ways, but it is as a shaper of ideas that UNESCO's overall contribution is best judged. In…
Descriptors: Primary Education, International Cooperation, Educational Policy, Literacy Education
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Curzon, A. J. – Comparative Education, 1977
Discusses the advantages of correspondence education in England and the Netherlands, the development of correspondence education in both countries, and the more recent developments of the Open University in England and the Foundation Inspection of Education by Correspondence (ISO) in the Netherlands, the former enlarging educational opportunities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Charts, Comparative Education, Correspondence Study