ABSTRACT
In this chapter we will use the mapping framework from Part I, the case studies in Part 2 and the discussion about productive policy possibilities documented in Chapter 12 to provide an examination of, and commentary on, English priority education policy initiatives. These will at times be supplemented by exemplar analysis of education policy from other affl uent countries but it is beyond the scope of this chapter to examine all international initiatives in any detail. Instead we have selected a number of English and other international examples, we believe, are both important in their own right and are typical of the sorts of approaches currently favoured by policy-makers across affl uent countries. Our aim is not to characterise the whole of international education-let alone wider public-policy in terms of these particular initiatives, but to use them as examples of the ways in which policy interventions embody the sorts of explanations that have been outlined in previous parts of the book.
