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de Freitas, Rogério Gonçalves; Chaves, Vera Lúcia Jacob; Nozaki, Hajime Takeuchi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) created the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as a political actor in global education through a logic of governance by numbers (Grek, 2009). This article discusses how PISA has became a major showcase for the OECD as an assessment tool par excellence while also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Zhou, Yisu; Wong, Yi-Lee; Li, Wei – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
Direct subsidy scheme (DSS) schools are a product of Hong Kong's market-oriented educational reform, mirroring global reform that champions parental choice and school marketization. Such schools have greater autonomy in matters of curricula, staffing, and student admission. Although advocates of the DSS credit it with increasing educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Change, School Choice
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Ringarp, Johanna; Rothland, Martin – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
What does a country do when its schools and educational system in general do not produce the results the country believes they are capable of? This article describes the political debates that comparative international studies such as the Programme for International Student Assessment have given rise to in Germany and Sweden. As a result of the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Comparative Education