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Lane, Jodi; Lanza-Kaduce, Lonn – Evaluation Review, 2007
In 2003, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provided Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) with a $3.5 million grant to design and implement a faith- and community-based program for incarcerated juveniles. Florida's experience developing a completely new program has provided valuable lessons regarding…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Delinquency Prevention, Pilot Projects, Background
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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2006
The e-mail system at Monte Cassino School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is more than just e-mail. It is the cornerstone of an evolving, collaborative online community the preK-8 Catholic school relies on to involve parents in their children's education. When the system was hit six years ago by a major virus attack, the school turned to a Cupertino,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Catholic Schools, Information Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kilderry, Anna – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
This colloquium discusses recent trends where early childhood education and care has shifted from being a community service to that of big business. Years of neo-liberal reform have created market conditions favourable for large corporations to provide childcare within Australia. This situation raises some issues and concerns, particularly in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Care Centers
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Weiner, Lois – Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
Dramatic changes are being made to teacher education internationally and in the United States. Some of the alterations have been recognized as threatening university-based teacher preparation, for instance, the growth of alternate route programs. Many other phenomena that have an impact on teacher education have not been analyzed as such,…
Descriptors: Corporations, Privatization, Standardized Tests, Public Education
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Roberts, Peter – International Review of Education, 2007
This paper provides a critical analysis of New Zealand's Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). The first section sketches the development and implementation of the PBRF. The second section evaluates the scheme, concentrating on three themes: the relationship between privatization, competition and research performance; the standardization of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, Privatization, Policy Analysis
Chakrabarti, Rajashri, Ed.; Peterson, Paul E., Ed. – MIT Press (BK), 2008
Public-private partnerships in education exist in various forms around the world, in both developed and developing countries. Despite this, and despite the importance of human capital for economic growth, systematic analysis has been limited and scattered, with most scholarly attention going to initiatives in the United States. This volume helps…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Charter Schools, Private Schools
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Spottl, Georg – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
In Europe a very intensive discussion is in full swing as to whether vocational schools should in future be guided and monitored by the state or whether they should be freed from state dependency. Within the framework of a number of pilot projects in German-speaking countries, vocational school centers are currently testing their autonomy. This…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Institutional Autonomy
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Blake, Peter – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Peter Blake reports on new legislations and reforms in Virginia that provide colleges and universities more operational and administrative autonomy in return for their commitment to public goals for higher education. He traces the history and context of privatization in Virgina from 1988. During this time, the legislatively mandated Virginia…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, State Legislation, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Gao, X.; Su, Z.; Hu, X. – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2006
This paper is a case study of a Chinese educational leader who was in charge of an institution when it was in the process of being upgraded from a secondary vocational school to a self-funded tertiary vocational institution. Using a life history approach, the paper furnishes an informative picture capturing the dual transformation process of the…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Biographies, Vocational Education, Instructional Leadership
Smith, Daniel J.; LaFaive, Michael D. – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2007
From April 25 through June 30, 2007, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy conducted its fifth survey of the privatization of bus, food and janitorial services among Michigan's 552 conventional public school districts. All Michigan school districts responded. In 2007, the Mackinac Center also conducted a nationwide survey of state education…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Food Service, School Districts, Privatization
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Lipman, Pauline; Hursh, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
The Chicago Public Schools, along with the city of Chicago itself, serve as an exemplary case of neoliberal reorganization, as corporate and governmental "leaders" remake Chicago into a global city meeting the needs of capitalism. As such, Chicago provides us with an example of "actually existing neoliberalism," in which…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Corporations, Political Attitudes
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Selwyn, Doug – Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
In this article the author looks at the impact NCLB is having on teacher education programs, focusing on three major areas: who is entering teacher preparation programs; the experience they have while they are in those programs; and the experience they have while in the schools as student teachers. The increased focus on testing to determine who…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Experience
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Bulkley, Katrina E. – Educational Policy, 2007
Substantial policy and political changes have resulted from a 2001 state takeover of the Philadelphia School District and the subsequent hiring of Paul Vallas as the district's new CEO. Using the lens of urban regime analysis, which emphasizes the importance of public and private actors in forming a governing coalition, this article analyzes the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Privatization, Educational Research, Politics of Education
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Farnsworth, Kevin – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
New Labour promised to introduce dramatic reforms to the education system when it came to power in 1997 and one of the key strategies it employed in the pursuit of educational improvement was the utilisation of the methods of the private sector. Arguably its most controversial policy was its effective privatisation of the functions of "failing"…
Descriptors: Business, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Private Sector
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Leutwyler, Bruno, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Almeida, Patrícia Albergaria, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
This volume contains papers submitted to the 10th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, held in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, 12-15 June 2012. The overall goal of the 10th BCES conference is to facilitate discussion of different perspectives on international education providing a forum for scientific debate and constructive…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Conference Papers, International Education
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