This pattern of reform is slowly rippling across Africa.
In recent years there has been a pattern of reform & repression, relaxation & reaction, thaw & freeze.
Ravitch's review underlines the pattern of "reform" measures as a result of the No Child Left Behind law which, in her words "has turned out to be the worst federal education legislation ever passed".
The trajectory of HRH policy developments in Sierra Leone provides a useful case study to examine the pattern of reform and the features of the post-conflict policy-making environment, as well as to reflect on the hypotheses about 'path-dependency' and 'windows of opportunity' in the policy-making processes.
This paper reviews trends and patterns of reforms in in the EU over the 2000s and provides an investigation of main determinants.
The discussion explores the extent to which patterns of reform that have been consequent on food safety scares in the late 1990s and early years of this decade have matched the rhetorics in terms of which they were justified, and solved the problems of legitimation that they had highlighted.
The OECD's overview of international patterns of reform shows common themes in many countries, such as helping disadvantaged children; improving vocational skills; raising the quality and training of teachers; and strengthening how schools are assessed and qualifications systems.
This section highlights a number of similarities and differences in the experiences described in these Chapters, first by documenting changes in agricultural performance and related indicators across the regions, and then by noting broad patterns of reform that may be associated with these changes in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The pattern of intensive reform to qualify, followed by a let-up in the process once membership is achieved, is too common to be mere happenstance.Olli Rehn, the enlargement commissioner, concedes sadly that "after a country has a seat round the table, it is much harder to apply pressure to it".
I hardly need point out that all of the objectives that WISE aims at are in opposition to the patterns of standardization and the "business model" of education that seems to have become the emerging pattern of "school reform" throughout the country.
