Activating Policy Levers for Education 2030 : The Untapped Potential of Governance, School Leadership, and Monitoring and Evaluation Policies

Abstract

This report presents the main findings and resulting recommendations of a series of comparative studies on promising education policy levers developed by UNESCO over the past biennium. The focus of this publication is on school systems; however there are implications for all levels and types of education. Considering the multiple interests involved, the intention of this study is therefore not to produce any ‘best’ framework or model, but rather to promote an active dialogue and intensive research on critical issues to help policy-makers, planners and education practitioners, especially at the national level, better and more strategically use governance, school leadership, and monitoring and evaluation in the pursuit of the internationally agreed education agenda.