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Hill, Dave; Boxley, Simon – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
In this chapter we set out a series of progressive egalitarian policy principles and proposals that constitute a democratic Marxist and ecosocialist manifesto for schooling and teacher education for economic and social justice. This is based on a democratic Marxist theoretical framework (1) and on a structuralist neo-Marxist analysis (2). We also…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Privatization, Unions, Developed Nations
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d'Entremont, Chad; Huerta, Luis A. – Educational Policy, 2007
This article discusses the limited use of education vouchers in an era of unprecedented growth in school choice. It is divided into two parts: first, a description of the policy, political, and legal barriers that may limit the expansion of large-scale voucher programs is presented. Discussion then shifts to the efforts of voucher advocates to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Vouchers, Disadvantaged, School Choice
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
During the last quarter of a century, public higher education institutions have found themselves buffeted by a perfect storm. This storm has led to discussions about the privatization of those institutions, which has implications for their ability to improve, or at least maintain, their quality and their accessibility to students from all…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Privatization
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Burch, Patricia Ellen – Teachers College Record, 2006
The institutional landscape of K-12 educational contracting is fundamentally changing. Based on industry and district data, this study identifies three distinct shifts in the content and structure of interactions between suppliers of instructional goods and local school systems. These shifts include 1) elevation of test-related services and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Interaction, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education
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Meyer, Katrina A. – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
What fuels the push toward privatization of public higher education institutions? This article attempts to unravel the nine beliefs that underlie conversations taking place in state legislatures and on higher education campuses and then asks, Will privatization work? How will it work for the state's citizens, the states, and institutions? The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Public Education, Policy Analysis
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Oberst, Bethany S.; Jones, Russel C. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
This paper summarizes the phenomenon of offshore outsourcing and relates it to the history and current state of engineering education and the engineering profession in Europe and the USA. In order to assess the climate affecting employment decisions by and about engineers we have used as sources mostly the serious press, with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Privatization
Srivastava, Prachi, Ed.; Walford, Geoffrey, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2007
The increased marketisation and privatisation of schooling in economically developing countries struggling to achieve Education for All and Millennium Development Goals warrants a focused examination of the phenomenon. However, there is little work on the nature and extent of private provision in countries that, on the one hand, are striving to…
Descriptors: Private Education, Private Schools, Private Sector, Low Income Groups
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Saltman, Kenneth – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article discusses how representations of individual discipline and risk-taking in mass media inform the broader public discourses about public education and the public sector generally. Such representations and narratives about individual discipline and risk-taking often function in mass media as moral imperatives of consumer culture. Such…
Descriptors: Discipline, Public Sector, Politics of Education, Mass Media
Peterson, Paul E. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, 2007
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) asks that states "restructure" schools that fail for six years running to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) toward full proficiency on the part of all students by the year 2014. Although restructuring efforts by most states have been modest, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2002, directed the School District…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, School Restructuring, School Districts
Campbell, Peter – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
Engaging students requires giving them a say in what they learn and how they will learn it. However, in strictly disciplined, rule-bound schools with test-driven curricula, this cannot happen. Edison Schools, Inc., a for-profit Education Management Organization (EMO), and Confluence Academy, an Edison-run school located in one of the most…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability
Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
India demonstrates many features characteristic of private higher education in much of the world. Among these features are proportional size, with roughly 30 percent of total enrollment, and fast growth. Also rather typical is finance, which comes almost exclusively from non-government sources, principally tuition, while public higher education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Private Sector, Democracy
Vest, Charles M. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2006
Charles Vest gave the first of three Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society on April 19, 2005 on the Berkeley campus. This essay argues that research-intensive public and private universities increasingly have far more similarities than differences in missions, structures, and even financial support. For both, the federal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Levin, Henry – Education Next, 2006
In this article, the author responds to an article written by Chris Whittle, in which he maintains that most of America's education troubles will be over in just a quarter century. The author notes that Whittle's assumptions differ markedly from the available evidence on what works and ignore the complexity of the combined elements of politics,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Futures (of Society), Public Education
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Ellison, Linda – School Leadership & Management, 2006
Kings College replaced a previous school on the same site and was the first privately managed state school in the UK, operating through a ten-year partnership between a not-for-profit company, 3Es Enterprises and Surrey County Council. This article examines the experience of this privatisation through the perspectives of students who had attended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Facilities Improvement, Student Attitudes, Educational Change
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Lynch, Kathleen; Moran, Marie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
While economic capital is not synonymous with cultural, social or symbolic capital in either its constitutional or organizational form, it nevertheless remains the more flexible and convertible form of capital. The convertibility of economic capital has particular resonance within "Celtic Tiger" Ireland. The states reluctance to fully…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Middle Class
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