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Direct linkSingh, Abhinav; Purohit, Bharathi – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
Due to privatization of higher education in India, there has been an emergence of sub-standard schools throughout the country. The higher education system in teaching institutes lacks incentives to perform; there is no reward for the meritorious and no way to ease out the non-performers. The quality of teaching and research cannot be evaluated…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Privatization, Integrity, Foreign Countries
Burch, Patricia – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
Key legislative objectives for the US Federal educational policy over the past several decades relied heavily on quasi-market strategies (such as school rating, school closure, the contracting out of schools) as central levers in "reforming" public schools. Using financial data on 11 national for-profit firms contracting with schools and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Public Education, Federal Legislation
Clark, Robert J. – American School Board Journal, 1995
Before signing on with a private firm to manage schools, school boards should consider whether privatization will save the school district and the taxpayers money, lessen bureaucracy, and lead to higher test scores or other objective measures of improvement. In addition, boards should ask whether the proposal is free of bias and whether the…
Descriptors: Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Systems
Download full textHill, Paul T. – 1995
The goal of this report is to formulate a true alternative to the current form of governance for public education. Based on studies of governance in other large decentralized service organizations and of local educational reform efforts, the report concludes that there is a real alternative. The alternative allows the schools to be operated by a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bureaucracy, Contracts, Educational Economics
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Ravitch, Diane – 1996
This document presents the Educational Excellence Network's third annual report card on the progress of education reform in the United States. Despite much activity, the report assigns reform efforts for 1995-96 the overall grade of C, which is the same grade given for the previous year. Part 1 presents data on academic achievement in American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Charter Schools, Educational Assessment
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1996
Controversy abounds in states and communities across the United States about how best to manage the nation's schools. Much of the current debate over school reform can be reduced to a single question: Who should decide? This report discusses some of the ways in which policymakers have attempted to give schools greater flexibility from rules and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
