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Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2008
A company that runs one of the nation's largest networks of online schools recently decided to discontinue a program that arranged for high school teachers in the United States to send their students' English essays to India for evaluations by reviewers there. The existence of the program by Herndon, Virginia-based K12 Inc. is an example of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Electronic Publishing, Elementary Secondary Education, Confidentiality
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Yonah, Yossi; Dahan, Yossi; Markovich, Dalya – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper offers a reading of the Dovrat Report with the aim of assessing the convoluted and dialectical manifestations of the state--"the weak and the strong state"--in the era of global neo-liberalism. The Dovrat Report (Ministry Of Education 2005) includes a set of recommendations aiming to bring about structural and comprehensive…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Values, Educational Change
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Ma, Wanhua – Higher Education Policy, 2008
Federal government science policy and R&D investment are two major factors for the success of research universities in the United States. This case analysis examines how the University of California at Berkeley shifted from a regional to a globally oriented research university by the influence of federal government science policy and R&D…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Investment, Privatization, Research Universities
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de Siqueira, Angela C. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
Higher education in Brazil began based on institutions organized as isolated establishments, and mostly privately owned. Nonetheless, public institutions created as universities and developing research activities and other services became the desired ideal for higher education. The first educational institutions in Brazil were created in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Universities, Democracy
Dickeson, Robert C.; Figuli, David J. – Trusteeship, 2007
The past two decades have seen a significant shift in the financial model of American higher education, laying groundwork for a transformation that could reshape people's understanding of the academy. The shift--toward increasing degrees of privatization--is unmistakable and has affected every American college and university to varying extents.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Governing Boards, Tuition
Molnar, Alex; Miron, Gary; Urschel, Jessica L. – National Education Policy Center, 2010
The 2009-2010 school year marked another year of relatively slow growth in the for-profit education management industry. The greatest increase in profiled companies occurred in the category of small EMOs (education management organizations) (i.e., EMOs that manage three or fewer schools). The authors believe their key finding from the 2007-2008…
Descriptors: Privatization, Profiles, Private Sector, Charter Schools
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Baine, Euzobia M. Mugisha – Educational Review, 2010
This paper examines ways in which privatisation of education is affecting the search for gender justice through education focusing on Uganda's higher education institutions (HEIs). Since 1988 when the first private university was opened, the winds of change have swept Uganda's higher education sector to change how it is financed and managed. The…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Free Enterprise System, Private Colleges
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2015
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2015 proceedings: (1) Local History and Local Culture at the Core of Elementary Social Studies Curriculum (C.…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Elementary Education, Local History
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Forsey, Martin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
The research reported here demonstrates the need for greater subtlety in the practice of policy than appears to be evident in many parts of the globe. Based upon an ethnographic study of school reform, this paper heeds Appadurai's call for those researching the "global diaspora of ideas" to pay attention to the contextual conventions…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Ethnography, Personal Autonomy, Educational Change
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Verger, Antoni – Higher Education Policy, 2009
Higher education is the education level under the most pressure to be internationally liberalized. Currently, the main global instrument to achieve this liberalization goal is the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization. In this paper, the process of trade liberalization of higher education in the GATS…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, International Trade, International Organizations
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
An analysis of spending trends that is designed to discourage policy makers' focus on finding new revenue rather than reining in spending suggests that the model for financing colleges has reinforced educational inequities and failed to increase the rate at which students graduate. According to the analysis, "serious fault lines" in the current…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education
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Giroux, Henry A. – Educational Forum, 2009
Public and higher education have fallen prey to forces of commercialization, privatization, and market considerations that undermine civic and critical learning while devaluing young people as a referent for a democratic and just future. This article criticizes this position and makes a case for reclaiming such vital institutions as fundamental to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Privatization, Democracy, Youth
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Ahmed, R.; Sayed, Yusuf – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
Public financing of education in the developing world context combines public and private funds, and the utilisation of fees is seen as a way of complementing state resources. In South Africa the new government in 1994 permitted schools to charge fees, a policy that has provoked much controversy. While different aspects of this policy have been…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
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Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2009
This article looks at one of the dominant themes of English education over the past twenty years. It examines the various ways in which privatisation has affected schools and schooling since the early 1980s. It may no longer be possible to indulge in a blanket defence of the public sector; but we do at least have to recognise that privatisation in…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Vocational Education, Privatization, Educational Principles
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Davidson-Harden, Adam – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
Using Latin America as a broad context and drawing on evidence from some of its most heavily indebted states as cases, this paper considers the example of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and education as a means of exploring the question of whether poverty reduction strategies of the Bretton Woods Institutions (the World Bank and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Poverty, Developing Nations
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