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Doyle, Ann Margaret – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article examines French and English average performances and educational inequality in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) between 2000 and 2018. It asks why English average scores in 2018 are much higher than those of France when they were fairly similar in previous PISA assessments. It questions why the impact of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries
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Normand, Romuald, Ed.; Moos, Lejf, Ed.; Liu, Moos, Ed.; Tulowitzki, Pierre, Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2021
This book identifies the cultural and moral foundations of country-specific educational governance and school leadership and presents the principles of justice and the diversity of common goods that guide leadership practices in schools. It contributes to an existing research field that studies diversity and ethical leadership in schools. The…
Descriptors: Governance, Instructional Leadership, Cultural Influences, Moral Values
Rhoades, Gary – 1982
A comparative analysis of the process by which conflicting interests are implemented in the higher education systems of the United States, England, Sweden, and France is presented. Attention is also directed to differentiation in these systems, and to the systems' receptiveness to such differentiation (i.e., splitting up existing functions, or…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accountability, Comparative Education, Competence
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van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
This article is based on the Keynote Address to the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Crete, Greece, 21-25 September 2004. One of the most consistent results in sociology of education research has been the existence of inequalities in school results and educational trajectories related to social factors. Despite an important…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Ethnic Groups, Parent Role, Foreign Countries