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But none of that is likely to mollify Pisa's critics. As they see it, Schleicher's work threatens a global standardisation of education, wiping out school systems that were embedded in diverse local cultures, values and traditions. "The very meaning of public education is being recast," write the American academics Heinz-Dieter Meyer and Aaron Benavot, editors of Pisa, Power and Policy, a collection of learned papers published this year, "from a project aimed at forming national citizens and nurturing social solidarity to a project driven by economic demands." Schools, they argue, are increasingly "subject to the imperatives of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control".