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For the last few decades, increasing international and national attention has been directed toward education quality, its meaning, its measurement, and its status as an integral goal in the design and implementation of educational reform. Coming to an understanding of quality education involves careful analysis of the context from which any particular reform or program emerges and of the continuing struggle to define and achieve it (Adams, 1993).
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Adams, D., Acedo, C., Popa, S. (2012). In Search of Quality Education. In: Acedo, C., Adams, D., Popa, S. (eds) Quality and Qualities. Comparative and International Education, vol 16. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-951-0_1
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