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Aaviksoo, Jaak – Higher Education Management, 1997
The Estonian Minister of Education discusses recent higher education trends and developments in Central and Eastern European countries, including the growth of institutional autonomy, expansion of educational opportunity, financial issues and privatization, balancing of academic and vocational education needs, part-time and continuing education,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, College Administration, Continuing Education
Biddison, Gail B.; Hier, Thomas C. – Trusteeship, 1996
As more colleges and universities consider privatization of college housing, without many existing models to observe, institutions are encouraged to consider these issues before making a decision: in loco parentis responsibility; legal liability; shared obligations; financial arrangements and performance criteria; vendor responsibility for capital…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Administration, College Housing
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Jacobs, Glenn – Urban Review, 1993
Examines the privatized management of the complete urban public school system of Chelsea (Massachusetts), the first example of school system privatization in the country. The role of Boston University and resistance of the Latino population are studied, and implications for educational reform and minority politics are examined. (SLD)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Kennedy, Sheila Suess – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
The voucher "air war" is a conflict between two longstanding elements of the American political tradition: a time-honored commitment to maximum personal choice and individual freedom versus an equally compelling belief in need for a common civil infrastructure and communitarian interests. Will embracing vouchers further erode the public…
Descriptors: Accountability, Civil Liberties, Democratic Values, Educational Vouchers
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Hursh, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
In the USA, many of the recent education reforms have been implemented in response to calls from neo-liberal and conservative policy makers to improve education efficiency and reduce public expenditures within an increasingly globalized economy. Consequently, local, state, and federal education policies increasingly employ curricular standards and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Democracy, High Stakes Tests, Educational Change
Chieuw, Juliet SF.; Mandolang, Nadine H. – 1992
This literature review, while not comprehensive, is aimed at informing the Strengthening Local Education Capacity project under way in Indonesia. Strategies that strengthen educational capacities at the school and local levels were reviewed, followed by strategies for local governance. Two school governance models, public choice and public…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Decentralization, Developing Nations
Geiger, Roger L. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1991
Current trends affecting private research universities include: privatization, more programmatic support of research, dispersion of university research, and a shift in the balance of activities from the center toward the periphery. Differences in finance and control of private universities are related to their disproportionate importance, given…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Engineering, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Brawer, Florence B. – 1998
This digest examines some of the literature on entrepreneurial arrangements within academic institutions--arrangements that often mirror the conflicted town/gown attitude between small cities and the institutions of higher education located within their limits. The main reason cited for the involvement of higher education institutions in…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Entrepreneurship
Kozakiewicz, Mikolaj – Prospects, 1992
Discusses general problems of educational pluralism in the nations of central and eastern Europe. Asserts that, contrary to many western Europeans, the nations of central and eastern Europe are very different from one another in politics, economics, and education. Reviews developments in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. (CFR)
Descriptors: Communism, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Economic Change
Tanner, Daniel – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Contrary to critics' claims, the United States could not boast the world's finest higher-education system while maintaining a deficient public-school system. Unregulated, profit-oriented market models are inappropriate for public schools responsible for serving the social good. Privatization and techno-efficiency pressures are equally…
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Competition, Computer Uses in Education, Democratic Values
St. John-Brooks, Caroline – 1996
This report examines the strengths and weaknesses of educational and career guidance in seven Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) countries. Chapter 1 defines educational and career guidance as embracing three key elements: educational, career, and personal/social guidance. Described in chapter 2 is the role of educational and career…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Career Education, Career Guidance
US Senate, 2004
The purpose of this hearing was to gather information and hear testimony on three issues: (1) the expansion of the Cancer Research Center in Hawaii; (2) the recently granted legislative authority for Hawaii 3R's to utilize monies in the Native Hawaiian Education funds to repair those public schools to 25 percent or more Native Hawaiian children;…
Descriptors: Cancer, Oncology, Medical Schools, Hawaiians
Elliott, Scott – Education Writers Association, 2005
More and more, private for-profit and non-profit organizations are involved in schools. No longer limited to support services like transportation and food services, companies are providing tutoring, directing classroom instruction and managing public and charter schools. School reform has raised the stakes for schools and students, asking for…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Privatization, Parent School Relationship
American Federation of Teachers, 2002
While teachers and school administrators play a highly visible role in education, other school team members work behind the scenes: food service workers, school nurses, school security, custodians, maintenance workers, classroom instructional assistants, bus drivers, secretaries and office employees. In the American Federation of Teachers (AFT),…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Food Service, School Nurses, School Security
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Ed. – Praeger, 2006
Public higher educational institutions, where about 80 percent of all college students and 65 percent of all four-year college students are educated, appear to be in serious trouble. In order to delve more deeply into this topic, the author invited a wide-ranging team of experts to examine changes in public higher education over the last quarter…
Descriptors: Public Education, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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