@inbook{8f15f2bee8f84021a2e749db68183a9c,
title = "The Netherlands: Quality control as a driving force in bilingual education",
abstract = "This chapter describes the accreditation process for the 120 schools in the Dutch national Network of Bilingual Schools. The chapter first discusses the context of bilingual secondary education in the Netherlands. In addition, it details the rationale for the accreditation process and its role as an internal mechanism initiated by the national Network aimed at assuring the provision of quality bilingual education. Furthermore, the chapter traces the forces, mechanisms and counterweights acting on and originating from current educational practice.",
keywords = "bilingual education",
author = "{de Graaff}, Rick and {van Wilgenburg}, Onno",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-29457-0",
series = "Advances in intelligent and soft computing",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "167--179",
editor = "Peeter Mehisto and Fred Genesee",
booktitle = "Building bilingual education systems: Forces, mechanisms and counterweights",
address = "United Kingdom",
}