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Direct linkLambert, Matthew T. – Harvard Education Press, 2014
"Public education is in crisis--and it has been for some time. The problem is, no one can agree on the problem, and when there is no agreement on the problem, developing solutions is nearly impossible." Thus writes Matthew T. Lambert in this study of present-day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Institutional Autonomy
Download full textCenter for Cities & Schools, 2014
Access to safe, affordable, and convenient transportation shapes the "geography of opportunity" for many children and youth. This study looks at how ?localities across the country are implementing new and innovative alternative approaches to student transportation that expand regional transportation access for K-12 students, improve…
Descriptors: Transportation, Elementary Secondary Education, Access to Education, Cost Effectiveness
Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2008
A company that runs one of the nation's largest networks of online schools recently decided to discontinue a program that arranged for high school teachers in the United States to send their students' English essays to India for evaluations by reviewers there. The existence of the program by Herndon, Virginia-based K12 Inc. is an example of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Electronic Publishing, Elementary Secondary Education, Confidentiality
Molnar, Alex; Garcia, David; Sullivan, Carolyn; McEvoy, Brendan; Joanou, Jamie – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2005
This annual report, in its seventh edition, found that Education Management Organizations (EMOs) tend to focus on managing charter primary schools and on enrolling relatively large numbers of students in those schools. Fifty-nine EMOs operate in 24 states and the District of Columbia, enrolling some 239,766 students. The report is the most…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Privatization, Charts
Peer reviewedWaters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2006
The e-mail system at Monte Cassino School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is more than just e-mail. It is the cornerstone of an evolving, collaborative online community the preK-8 Catholic school relies on to involve parents in their children's education. When the system was hit six years ago by a major virus attack, the school turned to a Cupertino,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Catholic Schools, Information Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Blake, Peter – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Peter Blake reports on new legislations and reforms in Virginia that provide colleges and universities more operational and administrative autonomy in return for their commitment to public goals for higher education. He traces the history and context of privatization in Virgina from 1988. During this time, the legislatively mandated Virginia…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, State Legislation, Educational Change, Higher Education
