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  • 8 - The Role of Textbooks in Improving Education in Portugal

  • Edited by Colleen McLaughlin, University of Cambridge, Alan Ruby, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Politics and Knowledge Shaping Educational Reform
    Published online:
    06 February 2025
    Print publication:
    13 February 2025, pp 115-134

  • Summary

    Portugal’s education progress from 2003 to 2015 has been praised as one of the most successful cases in OECD countries. This chapter describes the main factors of this evolution, highlighting policy measures taken on the aftermath of the 1995 TIMSS and 2000 PISA shocks. These policy measures include a more detailed curricular development, the improvement of standard assessment and the disclosure of schools’ results. These changes acted against the background of an experienced teacher body and counted with a discreet, but powerful factor: the reliance on quality textbooks. This chapter describes the recent evolution of textbooks’ role and their part in keeping both stability and improvement in the taught and assessed curriculum. It concludes with an account of how these apparently successful reforms were halted after years of bipartisan support.