Peter Milley is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Eugenie A. Samier is a reader in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde, UK. She has frequently been a guest researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin; was a visiting professor in administrative studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia; and a visiting fellow at Oxford Brookes University.