This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationshi

This book discusses national school policy reforms in a number of key European countries and shows how these are framed in transnational collaborations that mee

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what t

Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that sui

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational lea