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Reviews of National Policies for Education: Denmark 2004

Lessons from PISA 2000

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The results of PISA 2000, OECD's groundbreaking comparison of the educational outcomes of 15-year-olds, shook the belief of Danes that theirs was the best education system in the world.  In this report, a team of examiners determines why Denmark did worse than expected and recommends a series of steps to better evaluate performance, to overcome the effects of family backgrounds on student outcomes, to better equip school leaders and teachers, and to enhance the flexibility of the agreement governing tasks and hours of school staff.

English Also available in: French

Background Report: Making the Policies on Quality and Equity Work

Responsibility has been devolved to municipal and school levels. However because of concern with outcomes, the State has played a progressively stronger role recently in establishing outcome targets; it has also encouraged (but not mandated) more self-evaluation by schools. Pre- and in-service training of...

English Also available in: French

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