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Andersson, Lillemor, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1983
This School Research Newsletter presents the research program of the National Swedish Board of Education (NBE), as adopted by the NBE Board of Directors in June 1982. The successive decisions on decentralization taken in the educational sector since 1976 have led also to a decision to alter the thrust of the research and development work within at…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decentralization, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Stromberg, Lars – School Research Newsletter, 1987
Efforts to achieve greater decentralization, deregulation, and management by objectives in the public sector have left an indelible mark on the school sector in Sweden during the 1980s. The experimental scheme of local agencies and free municipalities illustrates two such reforms. Under the free municipality experiment, a number of municipalities…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship
Ljung, Bengt-Olov; Emanuelsson, Ingemar – School Research Newsletter, 1983
This newsletter describes a research design enabling descriptive, comparative, evaluative follow-up studies of individual development in social contexts related to schooling. In addition, it describes a research project focusing mainly on evaluative studies of the ability of the educational system to confer, on different individuals in various…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Peer reviewedTonnessen, Finn Egil, Ed. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1993
The seven articles of this special issue comment on the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Assessment Reading Literacy Study conducted from 1989 to 1991 in 31 countries. Project design and test instruments are reviewed, and results from the Nordic countries are presented and explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, International Education
Wadeskog, Anders – School Research Newsletter, 1987
The public sector in Sweden is under pressure to augment its productivity and cut costs, and the education sector is faced with the same demands. Most people believe that adequately proportioned, efficiently operating schools are essential to Sweden's long-term economic development, but this is seldom mentioned in connection with spending cuts. In…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Economic Development, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education
Malmgren, Gun – School Research Newsletter, 1987
Modern school research in Sweden has shown that the old selective school has been slowly transformed into an elective school, which in many ways resembles the old selective school with its parallel education systems. It is known that social background and a number of other variables (sex, nationality, type of class, etc.) have a crucial bearing on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grading, Outcomes of Education
