This chapter traces school reform trends over the period 1960–2025. It illustrates how the current reform began to take shape in the 1990s. It began first with a bundle of policies related to school-based management, choice, and privatization (summarized as school autonomy). A decade later, due to the detrimental effects of the neoliberal reform on equity and quality, a second bundle of policies was added that introduced standardized curricula, tests, and other performance evaluations (summarized as accountability). In the final stage, a full-fledged reform package circulated worldwide as a global script, featuring a particular theory of change, preferred policy instruments to induce and sustain change, and a specific mix of policies. Verger and his associates (Autonomous University of Barcelona) labeled the script School-Autonomy-with-Accountability (SAWA). The macroscopic preoccupation with international trends, presented in this chapter, has greatly benefited from research conducted by Patricia Bromley (Stanford University), Rie Kijima (University of Toronto), and their associates. They categorized and summarized over 10,000 policy documents that international organizations collected from almost every country and made publicly available in the World Education Reform Database. They convincingly show that the peak of the neoliberal era was 1992–2008.