Abstrakt
The present paper overviews the reflections of and reactions to publishing the results of the first wave of OECD study Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in the Czech Republic and in Germany. The choice of these two countries enables us to document how the same results could be perceived very differently in diverse country contexts and could lead to a different reaction from the side of policy-makers.
In spite of large reforms and numerous policy measures being adopted in Germany in reaction to PISA results compared to no response from policy-makers to PISA results in the Czech Republic, it is argued, that in both countries policy-makers failed to tackle the major problem of their educational systems - its selective nature.