ABSTRACT
The chapter aims to highlight fundamental ethical, epistemological, and methodological concerns that call for a more careful and critical assessment of what comes to count as equity and successful educational reform. The chapter illustrates holding Finland and Canada up as lessons for the USA is thus fraught with methodological, ethical, political, and epistemological conundrums. This focus on the technical and material forms of policy production and proliferation that we draw attention to in this chapter by focusing on the mediatisation of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results as a central mechanism in the raceless technology of neoliberal governance and the global politics of mutual accountability. The chapter devote some attention to the Ontario video, given that Ontario has been identified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a high-performing or high-equity Canadian province in its PISA results and has been ranked top ten in reading among countries that participated in the PISA assessment.
