One vehicle, many pathways: comparing the means and ends of schooling.

Editorial. Introduces a series of articles concerning education, published in the August 2004 issue of the periodical "Comparative Education". Potential roles of school systems and how these relate to host society; Cultural politics in schools in China; Comparative study of English and Hungarian teachers; Connection between the growing international preoccupation with raising the level of educational outcomes and its link to market-type processes within school systems; Goals of state education.