Virtual Book Launch: Data for Accountability in Education: Global Trends in School Reform

Five leading scholars explore a set of urgent and complex questions: When did data-for-accountability emerge as a governing tool in education? How has it evolved over time and across regions? Who benefits from the datafication of education—and who loses out? This co-authored book traces the rise of student testing, performance-based evaluation, and governance by numbers. Drawing on a variety of methods, theories, and disciplines, the co-authors demonstrate how these instruments have taken root globally, why they persist, and how their meanings and effects vary across policy contexts. This book launch will be of interest to scholars and practitioners across the fields of comparative education, sociology of education, policy studies, and international relations.