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An OECD report, Education Policy Outlook 2015: Making Reforms Happen, calls for a coherent framework of assessment and analysis of the effectiveness of education reforms. The report looks at the implementation of educational policy reforms through national and international comparisons.
Pasi Sahlberg, visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard University, critiques the report in a recent article. He highlights one of the report’s conclusions that “once new policies are adopted, there is little follow-up” and that only one in ten of the policies considered in the OECD report has been evaluated for its impact. Professor Sahlberg also praises increases in research and policy analysis in some countries, naming the UK and USA as examples.
Source: Education Policy Outlook 2015: Making Reforms Happen (2015), OECD.