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Segrera, Francisco Lopez – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Universities in Latin America and in the Caribbean (LAC), and throughout the world, are facing one of the most challenging eras in their history. Globalization presents many important opportunities for higher education, but also poses serious problems and raises questions about how best to serve the common good. The traditional values of…
Descriptors: Private Education, Higher Education, Privatization, Global Approach
Baumann, James A., Ed. – Association of College and University Housing Officers - International, 2009
The "Talking Stick" is published bimonthly, six times a year in January/February, March/April, May/June, July/August, September/October, and November/December by the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. Each issue is divided into three sections: Features, Columns, and Departments. These sections contain…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Community Colleges, Educational Facilities Design
Loss, Christopher P. – Princeton University Press, 2011
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, United States History, Educational History
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Paradigm Publishers, 2007
Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, this book dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ventures. At the…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Politics of Education, Federal Legislation, Public Education
Wrigley, Terry – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
This article reflects on the historic tensions of education under capitalism, arguing that they have been exacerbated in our era of neo-liberal globalisation. Government drives for greater "accountability" and "effectiveness" are a blinkered response to the threefold global crisis we face: poverty and debt; a collapse of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Ecology, Educational Change, Global Approach
Dattalo, Patrick – Social Work, 2007
Concern over Social Security's forecasted long-run deficit is occurring at a time when the program has a short-term surplus. One proposed strategy to address this forecasted deficit is to allow the investment of a portion of payroll taxes into private savings accounts (PSAs). The author analyzes recent proposals for PSAs and concludes that PSAs…
Descriptors: Social Work, Money Management, Retirement Benefits, Taxes
Harbour, Clifford P.; Jaquette, Ozan – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2007
In this article we introduce and explain a funding framework for advancing an equity agenda at the community college. The need for the framework is premised on (a) Dowd's observation that the traditional community college commitment to student access no longer suffices as an adequate strategy to achieve greater equity in society and (b) the…
Descriptors: Privatization, Community Colleges, Equal Education, Educational Finance
Belfield, Clive – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2008
Issued by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, "A School Privatization Primer for Michigan School Officials, Media and Residents" examines the "contracting out" of public school support services--specifically food, transportation, and custodial services. The report describes the prevalence of contracting out and sets forth…
Descriptors: Privatization, School Maintenance, School Support, Public Policy
Bradley-Levine, Jill – Journal of School Public Relations, 2008
This article considers how the private finance initiative, a contract for infrastructure, affected teachers' perceptions of efficacy, job satisfaction, and morale at an urban secondary school in the United Kingdom. Qualitative data collection techniques, including unstructured observation and semistructured personal interviews, were utilized to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Job Satisfaction
FengLiang, Li; Morgan, W. John – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2008
The development of private higher education in China is an important area of policy concern and for academic research, especially under the conditions of globalization. This article reviews the current situation and forecasts the likely trend in several key areas, such as governmental regulation, funds and competition for enrolments. The article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Labor Market, Social Stratification
Hohman, James M.; Imhoff, Eric R. – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2009
With Michigan's public school districts facing a decline in per-pupil funding, more districts are contracting out for at least one of the three major school support services--food, custodial and transportation--than ever before. This year's survey of school districts found that 44.6 percent of all Michigan school districts contract out for at…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Counties, Unions, State Legislation
Burch, Patricia; Donovan, Joseph; Steinberg, Matthew – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
The landscape of educational privatization is changing. The authors examine the rise of specialty service providers in four areas of K-12 educational services and products and the impact of these changes.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization, Educational Change, Professional Services
The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education
Boyd, William Lowe, Ed.; Kerchner, Charles Taylor, Ed.; Blyth, Mark, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2008
In "The Transformation of Great American School Districts", William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform can best be understood as a long process of institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects. They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era model of…
Descriptors: Privatization, Governance, Organizational Change, School Districts
Bernasconi, Andres – Comparative Education Review, 2008
Recently, Latin America has seen the advent of research activities to meet the call for research that long preceded them and of the full-time research faculty who engage in them. These developments have taken place as the region partakes in contemporary worldwide trends that have affected universities elsewhere: the consequences of the increased…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Educational Change, Economic Change
Ellerbrock, Mike; Bayer, Jessica; Bradshaw, Rose – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2008
In the management of common property resources, privatization is often advocated as the surest path to sustainability because of its reliance on human self-interest in natural resources decision making. This article demonstrates that the motive of self-interest, though powerful, does not necessarily lead to environmental outcomes that promote the…
Descriptors: Privatization, Environmental Education, Ownership, Natural Resources