This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities. In order to understand why some policies succeed and others fail, it is necessary to look at education systems through cross-national comparison.

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LIA ANTONIOU works at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden ANGELINE AUBERT-LOTARSKI Quality Coordinator at the faculty of Engineering and researcher at the School Administration Institute at University of Mons, Belgium JOSÉ-ALBERTO CORREIA Professor of Education and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, Portugal INÊS CRUZ is currently Professor at the Superior School of Education of Coimbra, Portugal ALAN DYSON Professor of Education and Co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education at the University of Manchester, UK GUADALUPE FRANCIA Associate Professor in Education at Uppsala University, Sweden NATHANAËL FRIANT Doctoral Assistant at the School Administration Institute, Faculty of Psychology and Education at the University of Mons, Belgium CHRYSSA KASSIMI Research and Studies Officer at the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, Greece MARKÉTA LEVÍNSKÁ Researcher at the Department of Psychology at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic LAZARO MORENO HERRERA Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden IDESBALD NICAISE Professor at the Department of Education Sciences and Head of the Research Group Education and Lifelong Learning at HIVA (Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid), both at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium CARLO RAFFO Lecturer at the University ofManchester, UK CALIN RUS Director of the Intercultural Institute of Timisoara in Romania LUCILIA SALGADO Professor at the Graduate School of Education in Coimbra, Portugal IRENA SMETÁ?KOVÁ teaches in the Department of Psychology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic GELLA VARNAVA-SKOURA Professor of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece DIMITRIS VERGIDIS Professor of Adult Education and Educational Policy at the University of Patras, Greece

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List of Tables Acknowledgements Foreword; S.Power Introduction: Towards a Comparison of Priority Education Policies in Europe; D.Frandji Policy Interventions to Reduce Educational Inequalities: The Case of England; L.Antoniou, A.Dyson & C.Raffo Priority Education Policies in Belgium: Two Modes of Regulation of the Effects of a Market Logic; N.Friant, M.Demeuse, A.Aubert-Lotarski & I.Nicaise Twenty Five Years of Priority Education Policy in France: Dubious Specificity and Disappointing Results; J.Rochex Greece: Educational Programmes in Support and Innovation; G.Varnava-Skoura, D.Vergidis & C.Kassimi From the Invention of the Democratic City to the Management of Exclusion and Urban Violence in Portugal; J.Correia, I.Cruz, J.Rochex & L.Salgado Priority Education Policies in the Czech Republic: Redesigning Equity Policies in the Post-Communist Transformation; D.Greger , M.Levínská I.Smetácková Romania: A System in Evolution, Searching for its Conceptual References; C.Rus Sweden: Priority Education Policies in Times of Decentralization and Individualization; G.Francia & L.Herrera Conclusion: Priority Education Policies in Europe: From One 'Age' and One Country to Another; J.Rochex Bibliography Index