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Sivalingam, G. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
The study will trace the external factors influencing the liberalization, deregulation and privatization of higher education in Malaysia from 1970 to the present and to analyze the effects of liberalization, deregulation and privatization on the modes of privatization and the internal restructuring of institutions of higher learning to increase…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Foreign Countries, School Restructuring
Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
One of the salient concerns in contemporary higher education internationally is access, which is rapidly expanding. Another salient trend is the rapid expansion of private higher education. These two salient tendencies have not been treated in scholarship as heavily intertwined. Much of the reason is that many people associate "private"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Trends, Public Colleges
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Sumsion, Jennifer – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2006
This article uses an ethical audit framework proposed by Cribb and Ball to critically analyze the possible implications of the rapid growth of corporatized childcare in Australia. In particular, it seeks to examine how corporatization affects childcare service provision and whether it conflicts with other social goals. Noting the paucity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Privatization, Policy Analysis
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Molnar, Alex – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
This essay reviews the history of school commercialization in the USA and the forms that it has taken over time, with particular attention paid to research measuring the scope and variety of commercialization trends in US public schools. The implications of commercialization activities such as those that promote the consumption of nutritionally…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Public Education, Public Schools, Privatization
Beckner, Gary, Ed. – Association of American Educators, 2007
"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) You Told Us What You Think of No Child Left…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Surveys, Student Evaluation
LaFaive, Michael D. – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2007
The landscape of public education in Michigan has changed dramatically over the last 13 years. Most districts receive a majority of their operating money from state government, not local taxes. Charter schools and nearby districts lure students away from local schools and capture the state money that goes with them. Districts are even subject to…
Descriptors: Privatization, Educational Finance, School Districts, Public Education
Vanderbroeck, Michel – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2006
This paper concentrates on the impact of globalisation on childcare since the late 1970s, particularly in the last two decades. It looks at how our views about children, parents and public services have changed as a result. In particular, the paper examines the case in Belgium, where the consequences of globalisation are also analyzed in terms of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Global Approach
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Bigby, Christine – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
The closure of institutions and relocation of people with intellectual disabilities to community living has been the focus of many nations' intellectual disability policies in the past three decades. The author studied the relocation of 58 people from a large institution to 11 small group homes in several Australian communities. Organizational…
Descriptors: Community Development, Employment Practices, Privatization, Mental Retardation
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Jansen, Willy – Gender and Education, 2006
This article explores how gender is threaded through the expansion and privatization of higher education in Jordan. Due to the justified current concern with the educational deficit of Muslim girls, it is easy to overlook the educational advances made by girls in some Islamic countries. In Jordan, girls have profited more than boys from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Privatization, Higher Education
Hinchey, Patricia H. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2006
In January 2005, then-Secretary of Education Rod Paige submitted the Department of Education's revised National Education Technology Plan (NETP) to Congress in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The plan, titled "Toward a New Golden Age in American Education," recommends seven "Action Steps" urging…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Educational Technology, Privatization, Federal Legislation
Poole, Wendy – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2007
Since the election of the Campbell government in 2001, teachers have experienced heightened conflict with the provincial government. An analysis of the discourse and power relations between the BC Teachers' Federation (BCTF) and government reveals a neo-liberal agenda on the part of government and anti-neo-liberalism on the part of the BCTF.…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Eckel, Peter D. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2007
In the United States, the relationship between state governments and public colleges and universities is being redefined with new notions of autonomy and accountability, and with funding policies that are highly market-driven (often referred to as "privatisation") as the centrepieces. Situations and institutional strategies unthinkable…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Law Schools, Competition
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Brighouse, Harry – Theory and Research in Education, 2006
This article comments on Fullinwider and Lichtenberg's "Leveling the Playing Field". It reviews their central claims and comments on both their arguments and their reform proposals, and suggests alternative, bolder, egalitarian proposals which involve a higher degree of effective privatization than theirs. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Privatization, Theory Practice Relationship, Transformational Leadership, Reader Response
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Narayana, M. R. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2006
This article focuses on economic analysis of privatisation policies and postprivatisation control devices in India's higher education. As a case study, the experiences of Karnataka State in collegiate education under general higher education are emphasised. A change in public financing, rather than a shift of public ownership and management to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Research, Private Sector, Foreign Countries
Gill, Brian; Zimmer, Ron; Christman, Jolley; Blanc, Suzanne – RAND Corporation, 2007
This monograph uses longitudinal, student-level achievement data provided by the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) to examine differential achievement effects in the 45 privately operated schools, in the 21 schools that were restructured and given additional resources in 2002, and in the 16 schools (known as the "sweet 16") that…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Change, School Restructuring, School Districts
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