Like the landscape of his native Chile, Neruda’s poetry encompasses great extremes–peak and prairie, deluge and drought–all connected by a spine of unbreakable certainty. Those of us who lack the language in which Neruda traversed this demanding terrain will find in Michael Straus a sure-footed and resourceful guide....

In the last few decades, student achievement has played a central role among the indicators used to evaluate the quality of education systems. Accordingly, education reform in Slovenia from the mid 1990s included the achievement of international standards of knowledge and skills as an important goal....