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Private Actors and the Right to Education
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Balsera, Maria Ron; Dorsi, Delphine; Termes, Andreu; Bonal, Xavier; Verger, Antoni; Gonzalez Diaz, Javier – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Privatisation of education is on the rise, being offered as the best alternative to achieve universal education and improve its quality and cost-efficiency. However, the benefits of the entry of private providers in education are highly controversial and tend to be judged in terms of market criteria such as choice and efficiency, neglecting the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation, Privatization
The "Developing" Achievement Gap: Colombian Voucher Reform
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Stern, Jonathan M. B. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
The achievement gap in many developing countries is defined in terms of rich/poor and public/private. The prevailing explanation for the "developing" achievement gap is an underfunded, inefficient, and/or inadequately supplied public school sector. Via an analysis of a Colombian voucher experiment, this article examines the extent to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Educational Vouchers, Educational Change
Education and Development in Latin America: With Special Reference to Colombia and Some Comparison with Guyana, South America. World Education Series.
Gale, Laurence – 1969
In this volume are surveyed some problems which arise in Latin American countries in the belief that even though solutions to them may differ somewhat from one country to another the conditions in which they arise are sufficiently similar to make comparisons possible and useful. After describing the uneven provision of schools for different…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development