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Narodowski, Mariano; Moschetti, Mauro – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Argentine education system went through a clear process of privatisation expressed in the increasing enrolment and state funding of the private sector. Especially in the 1990s, when the country implemented neoliberal economic policies, the academic literature had found in neoliberalism (in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Privatization, Neoliberalism
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Caref, Carol; Mayle, Kristine – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This article describes how the Chicago schools system has been bedeviled by the social conditions faced by the city's inhabitants, and now by attempts to use privatization and school closures as the "solution" to those problems. The article describes how teachers in the Chicago Teachers' Union combined with community members to challenge…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Social Influences, Privatization, School Closing
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Heinze, Kathryn L.; Zdroik, Jennifer – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Public schools in the US are increasingly charging "pay-to-play" fees for participating in sports. Although these fees can cause reductions in participation, particularly for children from lower-income families, pay-to-play has become a legitimate practice within the field of public education. This study examines what leads some school…
Descriptors: Fees, Public Schools, Student Participation, School Districts
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Lipman, Pauline – Democracy & Education, 2018
This response discusses the complexity of racial segregation in U.S. cities today and an emerging education movement for equity and racial justice. Racial segregation has been and continues to be a potent, and contested, strategy of containment, subordination, and exploitation, but African Americans have also, out of necessity, turned racial…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, African Americans, Racial Bias, Community Schools
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Brehm, Will – Ethnography and Education, 2019
Educational privatisation has received increasing scholarly attention in recent decades. In much of this work, educational privatisation is viewed as the outcomes of certain government policies or as the result of the influences of education businesses in school systems. This article presents a portrait of an educational entrepreneur in Cambodia…
Descriptors: Privatization, Educational History, Portraiture, Public Policy
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Kannan, Vani; Kuebrich, Ben; Rodríguez, Yanira – Community Literacy Journal, 2016
At our workshop at the inaugural Conference on Community Writing on the rhetoric of the corporate university, participants noted that the values espoused by community literacy "in the community" are being eroded "at the university." Furthermore, they noted the underlying rhetorics of missionary zeal, whiteness, and…
Descriptors: Workshops, Literacy, Privatization, Service Learning
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Ndimande, Bekisizwe S. – Global Education Review, 2016
This paper examines the consequences of the new policies of school choice in post-apartheid South Africa and the reasons they have largely failed to achieve greater educational equality--their stated purpose. I argue that the dominant reason for this lies in the continuing inadequate resources of many poor schools and the failure to address them.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Antunes, Fátima – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
"Rethinking Education" (EC, 2012) suggests a new phase in European education policy. The constitution of education as a marketable service and the European (Higher) Education area as a market was pinpointed as an "implicit" agenda in the "silent revolution in education landscape" fostered by the open method of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, International Cooperation, International Education, Student Mobility
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Iram, Yaacov – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
The foundations of higher education in Israel were established in the 1920's with the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1925, after numerous difficulties and opponents were overcome. Not only were the pioneers of higher education plagued by these difficulties, it appeared that they were an integral element in the history of every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Privatization
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Lloyd, Eva; Penn, Helen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
Public support provided for European early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems varies considerably. European ECEC systems tend to form part of a mixed economy, in which the state, private-for-profit and private-not-for-profit providers all play a role in ECEC's provision, funding and regulation, representing a market model. ECEC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Public Support
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Arani, Abbas Madandar; Kakia, Lida; Taghavi, Tandis – Cogent Education, 2015
During the last three decades in Iran, the government has had different policies on the privatization of education. After victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the new government closed all private schools for nearly a decade. Establishing and reopening Non-Governmental Schools (NGS) was the first action toward the privatization of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Privatization, Politics of Education
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Beese, Jane A.; Simon, Carlee Escue; Sutton, Lenford C. – Leadership and Research in Education, 2015
We analyze the votes taken in the Ohio State Legislature pertaining to the establishment of six school voucher programs: The Ohio Scholarship and Tutoring Program, The Autism Scholarship, The Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, The Educational Choice Pilot Scholarship, The Educational Choice Scholarship, and the Income-based Scholarship…
Descriptors: School Choice, Privatization, State Legislation, Educational Vouchers
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Wiborg, Susanne – Comparative Education Review, 2015
The aim of this article is to investigate why Sweden, the epitome of social democracy, has implemented education reforms leading to an extraordinary growth in Free Schools in contrast to liberal England, where Free School policy has been met with enormous resistance. Conventional wisdom would predict the contrary, but as a matter of fact Sweden…
Descriptors: Privatization, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Political Attitudes
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Sayilan, Fevziye – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
This paper discusses the Lifelong Learning Strategy document which was on the agenda during the European Union harmonization process of Turkey. The public policies in the document, regarding non-formal and adult education, will be analyzed. Lifelong Learning strategy became a current issue in the last stage of neoliberal transformation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Public Policy, Educational Policy
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Serpieri, Roberto; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Vatrella, Sandra – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
This article focuses on the increasing centrality assumed by non-educational consultants in the processes of policy design and knowledge production about education in Italy. We identify the recent establishment of the National School Evaluation System as a key policy trajectory and we focus on the case of the last policies to evaluate Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Governance, Educational Policy
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