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Direct linkOlson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
In this article, the author discusses how England refines its accountability reforms. When the Conservative government crafted the Education Reform Act of 1988, which mandates a national curriculum for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as well as national-curriculum tests at ages 7, 11, and 14, schools in England were permitted to secede from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Accountability, National Curriculum
