Intro
Contents
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction: School Policy Reform in Europe Between Transnational Alignment and National Contestation
Introduction to the Challenges of School Policy Reform in Europe
How Postwar Economic Transnational Collaboration Came to Include Education
Transnational and Neoliberal Technologies to Reforming School, Education, and the Public Sector
Digitalization of Education and Edubusiness
The Transnational Turn Meeting New National(ist) Responses

Alignment Vs. Diversity in Europe: The Unfolding of National School Policy Reform Narratives
School Policy Reform in Eleven Nations Across the EU and England
Conclusion
References
Part II: National Cases: Northwestern Europe
Chapter 2: Danish School Policy: Remaining Nordic While Going Transnational
Nordic School and Teacher Education Policies: An Overview
Danish School Policy and Its Postwar Roots
The Neoliberal Turn, Accountability, and Standards-Based Education
The Post-millennial Turn
The OECD Country Report on Evaluation Culture and Danish School Reform

The Merging of Transnational, National(First) and Commercial Agendas
The School Reform of 2013
At the Crossroads? Transnational Policy Meets National(First) Resistance
References
Chapter 3: England: Neo-Liberalism, Regulation and Populism in the Educational Reform Laboratory
Introduction
The Context for Post-welfarist School Reform
Post-war School Reforms in England
The Emergence of and Early Challenges to Comprehensive Schools
Establishing Post-welfarist Reform in England (1979-1997)
The 1988 Education Reform Act

School Reform and the Conservative Administrations of the 1990s
Regulatory Government and the Demise of Self-Regulation
School Marketisation
Embedding Post-welfarist School Reform in England (1997-2010)
New Labour, Standards and Continuity
Marketisation and Privatisation Under New Labour
Schools and Performance Data
Schools in Scotland and Wales and Devolution
New Labour and the Mainstreaming of Privatisation and Marketisation
Accelerating Post-welfarist School Reform in England (2010-Present Day)
Rapid Growth of Academies

Local Authorities Displaced, Multi-academy Trusts Emerge
Centralising Tendencies Persist
Populism and Educational Reform
Discussion
References
Chapter 4: School Reform Policy and Governance in Germany Between National and Transnational Expectations: With Outlooks on Austria and Switzerland
Introduction
Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Contexts
Germany: Main School Policy Reforms Since the 1990s
Key Transnational Agendas, Effects on School Policy, Contestations, and Recontextualizations
Main School Policy Reforms Since the 1990s