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Decentralization and Privatization in Chile: A Mixed Method Approach for Understanding Social Reproduction throughout Education
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Paulina Veronica Morales Cardenas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This mixed methods study explores how market-oriented policies, specifically privatization and decentralization of the educational system in Chile have impacted students' academic achievement since the Change in the Constitution in 1980. First, using teachers' interviews I identify variables that influences students' academic achievement and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Privatization, Teacher Attitudes
Organizational Rhetoric in the Prospectuses of Elite Private Schools: Unpacking Strategies of Persuasion
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McDonald, Paula; Pini, Barbara; Mayes, Robyn – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
The way in which private schools use rhetoric in their communications offers important insights into how these organizational sites persuade audiences and leverage marketplace advantage in the context of contemporary educational platforms. Through systemic analysis of rhetorical strategies employed in 65 "elite" school prospectuses in…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Privatization, Rhetoric, Academic Achievement
Reforming and Improving the Detroit Public Schools: Report of the Strategic Support Teams of the Council of the Great City Schools
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Council of the Great City Schools, 2008
The Detroit Public Schools (DPS) have been battered by substantial outside forces over the last decade. The school system was taken over by the state; its elected school board was dissolved and replaced by an appointed body; its many operating systems were privatized; its citizenry were encouraged to flee to charter schools; and its resources have…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Textbooks, State Standards