How can international comparisons have an impact on one country while others are not affected at all? This paper examines the power of ratings & rakings (R&R) using the example of the OECD’s PISA study (Programme for International Student Assessment) and its differential impact on national...

"This book locates teacher unions at the crux of the enduring tensions between teachers' own low status in the educational system and the necessary autonomy and working conditions to teach effectively and well. The chapters, focusing on teacher unions in Canada, the U.S., and England reveal the...

Prologue -- Part I. America's Talent Challenge. Ch 1: The American Century ; Ch 2: A Nation at Risk ; Ch 3: Winning the Future ; Ch 4: Talent, You Say? -- Part II. Five Ways to Attract, Educate, and Deploy Talent. Ch 5: It's the Learning, Stupid ; Ch 6: Unleashing Private Sector Innovation ; Ch...

Derek Neal writes that economists must analyze public education policy in the same way they analyze other procurement problems. He shows how standard tools from economics research speak directly to issues in education. For mastering the models and tools that economists of education should use in...