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Loomis, Steven R.; Rodriguez, Jacob P.; Honeycutt, Jared; Arellano, Manuel – London Review of Education, 2006
Many arguments in favour of school voucher programs are based upon libertarian free agency principles. Viewed at the organizational level, allowing persons to exercise choice in education would seem to offer incentives for all educational organizations within that framework to improve overall product quality and thus more effectively obtain the…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Human Capital, Foreign Countries
Gordon, Liz – 1992
Ways in which the shape of New Zealand's educational system crucially affected the implementation process of market oriented educational reforms are examined in this paper. The first part discusses educational reform in New Zealand as political management. The Labour government's program from 1987 to 1990 was designed to reduce the size and scope…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Economics, Educational Policy
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Mitchell, David R. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1996
This article considers how special education intersects with general education reforms in reference to such issues as choice, contestability, decentralization, and accountability. Particular attention is given to events in New Zealand since the institution of educational administration reforms in 1989. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Disabilities, Educational Administration