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Sonu, Debbie – Canadian Social Studies, 2018
In her essay, Neoliberalism's Frankenstein, Wendy Brown (2018) unpacks with meticulous depth how the current neoliberal condition valorizes private venture by eroding trust in the meaning of the social. In an attempt to understand, like Michel Foucault (1977), the governing rationality that generates certain kinds of subjects and their conduct,…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Privatization, Whites
Altbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
The most significant trend in global higher education since the second World War has been massification, the dramatic increases in enrollments around the world. While massification has meant greater access and opportunity, expanded enrollments have strained education budgets and existing infrastructure, outpaced the preparation of academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Futures (of Society), Private Sector
Tierney, William G. – SUNY Press, 2021
Democracy and higher education are inextricably linked: universities not only have the ability to be key arbiters of how democracy is advanced, but they also need to reflect democratic values in their practices, objectives, and goals. Framed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing crisis of structural racism, "Higher Education for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, College Role, Universities
Faw, Leah; Jabbar, Huriya – Urban Education, 2020
In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of "district hopping," families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside-usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Antisocial Behavior, Crime, School Districts
Gordon, Rita S. – Online Submission, 2019
The dynamics of higher education funding present unique challenges and opportunities for administrators. One method university administrators employ to contain expenses and provide additional revenue is privatization of academic and non-academic services. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the specific factors considered in…
Descriptors: Universities, Ancillary School Services, Privatization, Books
Hohman, James M.; Slasinski, Chase – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2019
Public school districts use private contractors to provide support services in an effort to save money, improve services and better prioritize district resources. The Mackinac Center has surveyed school districts about their use of contractors since 2001. This year's survey revealed that 69.7% of schools contract out for food, custodial or…
Descriptors: School Surveys, State Surveys, Privatization, Public Schools
Lesnick, Alice; Bahn, Hannah – Power and Education, 2018
This article compares two neo-liberal education reform activities that are not often studied in tandem: alternative teacher certification in the USA, as explored through Teach for America, and the growing international service learning movement. Guided by the Movement for Black Lives' call for a world where those "most impacted in our…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Alternative Teacher Certification, Service Learning
Shah, Qasir – Power and Education, 2018
This article aims to demonstrate the hazards of an education system controlled by any one group -- in this case, governments -- by examining the recent drive for the academisation of English state schools. This article highlights the need for education's independence from political control. The once 'secret garden' of the curriculum is now firmly…
Descriptors: Public Education, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Government Role
Paschen, Jana-Axinja; Reichelt, Nicole; King, Barbara; Ayre, Margaret; Nettle, Ruth – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2017
Purpose: Current developments in the Australian agricultural research, development and extension (RD&E) system exemplify the complex governance challenges arising from the international privatisation of agricultural extension. Presenting early challenges emerging from a multi-stakeholder project aimed at stimulating the role of the private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Research and Development, Agriculture
Hall, Horace R. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
The idea of privatization of the traditional U.S. public school system is a relatively recent historical phenomenon. The growing trend towards allowing private enterprises to become active players in the development and delivery of classroom learning is assumed to be a "public good." The following commentary provides a cursory look at…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Privatization
Peters, Michael A. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
In this Discussion Paper, the author presents a review of the papers in this collection, based upon the theme "Responsibility and responsibilisation in education." Each author in their own way has expressed a concern for analysing and charting the effects of the process called "responsibilisation" in the realm of education…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Personal Autonomy, Privatization, Accountability
Kathleen Pilar Blanco Eble – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a qualitative study includes documents analysis and interviews. The study focus is applying entrepreneurial theory to funding public higher education in the U.S. The critical portion of the dissertation focuses on the best practices they have implemented to practice academic entrepreneurialism. The literature review takes a…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Case Studies
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
Adrião, Theresa; Silva, Rui da – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This paper focused on public funding to private providers of compulsory education in the context of globalisations. It analyses the differences and the common points between Brazil and Portugal (from 2014 to 2017) regarding the type of private providers in education, the mechanics and the reasons linked to the public funding to compulsory…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Private Schools, Compulsory Education, Comparative Education
Burd, Stephen – New America, 2020
This report analyzes data from 2001-2017 to examine public four-year universities' spending on financial aid dollars--specifically between non-need-based and need-based aid. Our researcher found that these universities have spent nearly $32 billion of their own financial aid dollars on students who lack financial need, according to an analysis New…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Public Colleges, Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Expenditures