TY - JOUR TI - A new look at educational standards. Review of the V. K. Zagvozdkin. Theory and practice of application of standards in education T2 - Educational Studies Moscow IS - Educational Studies Moscow KW - school education KW - educational standards KW - competencebased approach KW - content of education KW - standards of results KW - examination procedures AB - The author reviews the monograph which is concerned with international experience of application of standards in pre-school, primary and secondary education, and also in teachers’ education. The reviewer identifies the problem of standardization of school education and emphasizes the relevance of the book in the context of the broad discussion of the new standards for high school. The book is evaluated in terms of its contribution to the issues raised in this debate: the role of modern general education and reasonable limits of its standardization, the limits of schools’ freedom in determining the school curriculum, the relationship between the content of educational standards and their application.  AU - Oleg Lebedev UR - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2011--4/101080899.html PY - 2011 SP - 291-305 VL -