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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
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Ugeoz, Perihan – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1998
States that the increasingly unrestricted growth of competition places national public institutions of education under escalating pressure. Notes that creeping privatization is passing more costs of education onto the citizen. Argues that this internationally subversive process is seldom critically addressed but is instead dominated by a high-brow…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries