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Kim, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
As challenges to U.S. democracy proliferate, public schools have been caught up in the controversies. Columnist Robert Kim explains that the challenges to both public education and democracy are not new. These attacks occur on multiple fronts, involving funding, equity, and curriculum. And efforts to respond to the threats will require various…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Public Education, Democracy, Privatization
Amie Rapaport; Anna Rosefsky Saavedra – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Adults' beliefs and knowledge about the state of the U.S. education system drive decisions about policy, funding, program adoption, student participation in programs, and the selection of decision makers to elected positions. Amie Rapaport and Anna Rosefsky Saavedra share national survey data showing that U.S. adults have little knowledge about…
Descriptors: Adults, Knowledge Level, Public Education, National Surveys
Molnar, Alex; Boninger, Faith – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
A school-focused commercializing process over 100 years in the making has been turbo-charged by the rise of data-collecting digital educational platforms and a pandemic that has forced widespread use of distance learning. Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger explain how advertising to students creates what John Dewey would call "mis-educative…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Educational Change, Privatization, Public Schools
Hess, Rick; Noguera, Pedro – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In 2020, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera engaged in a long-running correspondence that tackled many of the biggest questions in education -- including topics like school choice, equity and diversity, testing, privatization, the achievement gap, social and emotional learning, and civics. They sought to unpack their disagreements, better understand one…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice, Equal Education, Student Diversity
Labaree, David F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
Eminent historian David Labaree describes a gradual shift, over the last two centuries, in Americans' beliefs and attitudes about the goals of public education. At its founding, our school system was designed mainly to serve the public good, conceived at the time as an effort to create a unified citizenry. By the early 20th century, the schools…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Educational History
Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Kappan's editor talks with Queensland University researcher Anna Hogan about the rapid growth of commercial activity in Australia's schools and in school systems around the world. Private businesses have always sold textbooks, classroom tools, and other goods and services to public schools, and many teachers are happy to purchase and use them,…
Descriptors: Global Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change
Burch, Patricia – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
In recent years, the federal government (under Republican and Democratic administrations alike) has encouraged the outsourcing of core parts of public education's work, including testing and test preparation, teaching and tutoring, data collection, and human resources management. However, researchers have found little evidence to support policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Privatization, Low Income Students
Gasman, Marybeth – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Philanthropic interest in K-12 education has grown substantially in the past 10 years, with some estimates putting K-12 educational spending at 25% of all philanthropic giving. Critics have pointed to the lack of educational expertise held by philanthropists and the intrusive nature of their giving, calling them a small group of billionaires…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Philanthropic Foundations, Partnerships in Education, United States History
Ayers, William; Klonsky, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Would-be reformers need to beware of those who would co-opt the language of reform to undermine its ideals. Mr. Ayers and Mr. Klonsky examine how Chicago's Renaissance 2010 initiative has used the terms of the small schools movement to promote privatization and the erosion of public space. (Contains 5 endnotes.)
Descriptors: Privatization, Small Schools, Educational Change, Ownership
Burch, Patricia; Donovan, Joseph; Steinberg, Matthew – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
The landscape of educational privatization is changing. The authors examine the rise of specialty service providers in four areas of K-12 educational services and products and the impact of these changes.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization, Educational Change, Professional Services
Blanc, Suzanne; Simon, Elaine – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
Like many other U.S. cities, Philadelphia experienced a prolonged period of deindustrialization and job loss during the second half of the 20th century. As in other northern cities, the process of suburbanization went hand in hand with white flight, increased racial segregation of the city and its schools, and increasingly inadequate funding of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Privatization, Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education
Ascher, Carol – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Supplemental Educational Services, mandated by NCLB as an option for students in low-performing Title I schools, has just completed its fourth implementation year, and a number of solid research reports on the Federal program are now available. This commentary reviews the political background to the out-of-school tutoring program, the for-profit…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Privatization, Supplementary Education, Politics of Education
Ayers, William; Klonsky, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Arne Duncan, the brightest and most dedicated schools leader Chicago has had in memory, wants Chicago to be a Mecca where entrepreneurship can flourish. In this article, the authors contend that private management of Chicago schools is a long way from Mecca. There is no evidence or educational research whatsoever to show that privately run…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Research, Educational Improvement, Urban Schools
Chubb, John – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
This article presents a reply to "Edison Is the Symptom, NCLB Is the Disease" by Peter Campbell--a critique that portrayed the school as an exploitative environment, a veritable plantation subjugating poor minority children through mind-numbing, compliance-inducing drills. The author refutes the specific charges leveled against…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Minority Group Children, Accountability, Standardized Tests
Goodlad, John I. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
As Arthur Schlesinger predicted, private interests are subverting public purpose. The narrative of economic utility dominates school reform. Reform language is not uplifting and embodies the traditional connotations of things gone wrong that need correcting. The language of renewal celebrates the self and reflects a supportive, caring ethos. (25…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualism, Language