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Hursh, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
Education in both England and the United States has undergone a profound change over the last two decades as part of neo-liberal and neoconservative political reforms. The reforms have been characterized by efforts to standardize the curriculum, to implement standardized tests in order to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable, to…
Descriptors: Democracy, School Choice, Standardized Tests, Educational Change