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Abadzi, Helen – Comparative Education Review, 2020
Despite significant investments, lower-income countries face a learning crisis. A clamor has thus arisen worldwide for greater accountability of those involved in service delivery. To obtain new insights, the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report was dedicated to accountability in 2017, and the research on this topic was reviewed. A summary is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Sustainable Development, Educational Policy, Governance
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McGinn, Noel; Street, Susan – Comparative Education Review, 1986
A government is a complex system of competing factions that adopts a decentralization policy when the dominant group sees current government structures or procedures as an obstacle to the realization of group interests. Case studies of educational decentralization in Peru, Chile, and Mexico demonstrate that the "state" tends to share…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
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Benveniste, Luis – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Examines the national educational assessment systems of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay to explore the role of politics and state-polity relations in shaping the design, implementation, and impact of national assessment systems. Discusses the rapid global diffusion of national assessment systems and the impact of centralized versus decentralized…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Assessment