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Linda Maria Laaksonen; Sonja Kosunen – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
We examine private supplementary tutoring within the context of Finnish general upper secondary education. Specifically, we focus on profit-driven private preparatory course providers who cater to individual students and their families, aiming to improve applicants' prospects of gaining access to higher education. We examine this during a time…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Secondary School Students, College Admission, Educational Policy
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Frances Free Ramos; Nirali Jani – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This article examines the ways in which teachers and community-based activists collaborated to advance an anti-privatisation agenda within an urban school district. The article emerges from our respective studies of privatisation in Oakland, one a historical study of the advance of neoliberalism and the other a case study (Merriam 2007,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Change, Urban Areas, Urban Schools