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Mortimore, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
Recent governments have transformed the English education system from an arrangement of local, democratically managed, groups of schools into a market free-for-all in which individual schools compete for pupils, status and resources. Elements of a market exist in the relationship between parents and private schools but much market behaviour is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Commercialization, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Osborne, David – 1987
New economic strategies used by states are described, and case studies of the recent innovations in economic development policies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Michigan are presented. A number of programs in other states are briefly reviewed, and various models of state intervention are evaluated, along with the principles that underlie…
Descriptors: Business, Case Studies, Competition, Economic Development
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
The proceedings of a regional working conference on educational and employment equity for Blacks and Hispanics in New England is presented. The purpose of the conference was to address the nine findings and 20 recommendations set forth in a recent New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) report, "Equity and Pluralism," which warns…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Blacks, Change Strategies