List of Tables Acknowledgements Foreword; S.Power Introduction: Towards a Comparison of Priority Education Policies in Europe; D.Frandji Policy Interventions to Reduce Educational Inequalities: The Case of England; L.Antoniou, A.Dyson & C.Raffo Priority Education Policies in Belgium: Two Modes of Regulation of the Effects of a Market Logic; N.Friant, M.Demeuse, A.Aubert-Lotarski & I.Nicaise Twenty Five Years of Priority Education Policy in France: Dubious Specificity and Disappointing Results; J.Rochex Greece: Educational Programmes in Support and Innovation; G.Varnava-Skoura, D.Vergidis & C.Kassimi From the Invention of the Democratic City to the Management of Exclusion and Urban Violence in Portugal; J.Correia, I.Cruz, J.Rochex & L.Salgado Priority Education Policies in the Czech Republic: Redesigning Equity Policies in the Post-Communist Transformation; D.Greger , M.Levínská I.Smetácková Romania: A System in Evolution, Searching for its Conceptual References; C.Rus Sweden: Priority Education Policies in Times of Decentralization and Individualization; G.Francia & L.Herrera Conclusion: Priority Education Policies in Europe: From One 'Age' and One Country to Another; J.Rochex Bibliography Index