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Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
World Bank, 2017
The demographic shift occurring in Serbia has had a profound effect on the education system. The student population has declined by 21 percent in primary schools and 13 percent in secondary schools since 2000, but the school network has changed little since then. This has resulted in many schools with few students. Furthermore, the total number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Lewis, Steven – Comparative Education, 2017
This paper examines the development and administration of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Schools--a new testing instrument of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development--to demonstrate the relevance of heterarchical processes to educational governance. Drawing suggestively across new "relational"…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Administrative Organization, Achievement Tests
Cheema, Jehanzeb R. – International Review of Education, 2015
The education system in Qatar comprises of both private schools, which receive money through student fees, and public schools, which are fully government-funded. In the mid-2000s, Qatar started its transition towards an independent school model with the aim of eventually converting all public schools into government-supported independent schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Public Schools, Educational Change
Salas-Velasco, Manuel – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency performance of public sector-funded schools in Spain. Design/methodology/approach: Using school-level data from Program for International Student Assessment 2012, cross-sectional models were estimated using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Technical efficiencies of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Efficiency, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
Forgasz, Helen J.; Leder, Gilah C. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2017
We report the general public's perceptions and those of 15-year-old school students, about aspects of mathematics learning. For the adult sample, survey data were gathered from pedestrians and Facebook users in Australia, Canada and the UK-countries in which English is the dominant language spoken. Participants responded to items about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Gender Differences, Equal Education
López Rupérez, Francisco; García García, Isabel; Expósito-Casas, Eva – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
There is important empirical evidence that shows that quality of leadership at a school level is one of the factors with the greatest impact on students' performance. The purpose of this article is to provide territorialized diagnosis of quality of school leadership in Spain and its regions based on PISA 2015 Spanish sample. Several quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership
Moos, Lejf – Educational Governance Research, 2017
The neo-liberal move to depoliticise and deregulate governance of public sectors by transferring them to the technocratic and administrative marketplace management endangers the political and democratic processes at all levels. It influences education and educational leadership at their very core: the purpose of education is shifting from…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Governance, Politics of Education, Educational Administration
Leaver, Clare; Lemos, Renata; Scur, Daniela – Centre for Economic Performance, 2019
Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration receiving growing attention is school management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also explain any observed relationship between school management and student learning. This paper introduces a…
Descriptors: School Administration, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Measurement Techniques
Sui Chu Ho, Esther – Research Papers in Education, 2016
This paper examines to what extent and how the data and results of PISA have been used for various education stakeholders and to what extent PISA affect educational policy and practices in Hong Kong. From the point of view of the government, PISA has played an important role in supporting and legitimising government educational reform since 2000.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2016
At the turn of the century, the United States was trying to come to grips with a serious education crisis. The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a half-century effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had made little headway. Many people expected action from the federal government. George W. Bush and Barack…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Role, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Møller, Jorunn; Skedsmo, Guri – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2013
Since the end of the 1980s, the Norwegian education system has gone through major reform, influenced largely by new managerialist ideas. Strategies to renew the public sector were promoted as the new public management (NPM). This paper investigates the way ideas connected to NPM reforms have been introduced and interpreted in the Norwegian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis
Kang, Seulgi – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2020
The unification of South Korea and North Korea is a plausible idea yet it requires a comprehensive preparation in advance. As a method to achieve fiscal efficiency in public services, decentralization theory is consistently applied. However, the current literature and political reality argue that decentralization does not always hold its…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Finance, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries
Baum, Donald Rey – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Public-private partnerships are being increasingly supported and advocated for, ideologically and financially, as an approach to educational reform in many countries across the world. Proponents suggest that non-state involvement in the education sector has the potential to bolster international Education for All efforts, improve school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Educational Change
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
In most PISA-participating countries and economies, the average socio-economic background of students who attend privately managed schools is more advantaged than that of those who attend public schools. Yet in some countries, there is little difference in the socio-economic profiles between public and private schools. Why? An analysis of PISA…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Academic Achievement, Profiles, Public Schools
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