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Hey, Valerie – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Offers a poststructuralist analysis of the UK higher education sector's academic division of labor, exploring some new contradictions from a contract researcher's standpoint. Raises political, social, and methodological questions about these divisions by exploring their class and gender dimensions. Too many academics remain silent about adverse…
Descriptors: Classification, College Faculty, Faculty Publishing, Foreign Countries
Kinkel, Karen E. – School Business Affairs, 1996
The expertise and resources of contracted student transportation can free up school administrators' time and attention. When school boards are considering contracting student transportation, the school business official's role is crucial in taking an objective look at all the policy options. Cites three sources for additional information. (MLF)
Descriptors: Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Lurie, Sylvia; Smith, Kenneth – School Business Affairs, 1996
North Chicago, Illinois, District 187, received a districtwide overhaul of lighting, heating, ventilation, and security systems through a 10-year performance contract with the Honeywell Corporation. The Briarcliff Manor Union-Free School District, New York, has a contract with Johnson Controls that guarantees a portion of the energy savings…
Descriptors: Alarm Systems, Climate Control, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Improvement
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Winston, Gordon C. – Change, 1999
The economics of the growing sector of for-profit higher education institutions are examined, comparing the cost-price-subsidy structure of traditional institutions with these nontraditional institutions. Implications for the schools least able to withstand competition with for-profit institutions, generally private colleges and universities, and…
Descriptors: Competition, Distance Education, Educational Economics, Educational Technology
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Naradowski, Mariono; Andrada, Myrian – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Describes historical and current trends in Argentina's private and public primary- and secondary-school enrollment levels and policy reasons behind changes, including deregulation of private schools. Evaluates research analyzing impact of increased private-school enrollment; argues middle- and high-income students are opting out of public schools…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends
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Torche, Florencia – Sociology of Education, 2005
Chile has experienced considerable educational expansion over the past few decades, as well as a privatization reform in 1981 that introduced full parental choice through a voucher system, in the context of a market-oriented transformation of the country. Using a cohort analysis of the 2001 Chilean Mobility Survey, this article examines trends in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Privatization
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Ntshoe, I. M. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2004
Trends suggest that business practices and private sector ideas and values are increasingly permeating public funded higher education institutions world-wide. The impact of business practices and values on higher education policy and practice is discernible in the growing dominance of global privatisation, quasi-marketisation and new managerialism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Sector, Racial Segregation, Higher Education
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Arenas, Alberto – International Review of Education, 2004
The voucher model of financing schooling is becoming increasingly common throughout Latin America, with at least 12 countries using vouchers or voucher-like schemes. The present study focuses on the voucher models of Colombia and Chile, which have the most extensive programs of this type and those of the longest standing in the region. Using…
Descriptors: Privatization, Educational Vouchers, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance
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Ornelas, Carlos – International Review of Education, 2004
Reform in the Mexican education system accords with global patterns of liberalisation, decentralisation, compensatory programs and accountability. The present study analyses reform in that country during the past 15 years. It reveals that despite expectations of change attending the installation of the new government which replaced the ruling…
Descriptors: Privatization, Administrative Organization, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Ford, Brian – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
The dynamics of educational policy discourse in the USA are illustrated by the highly contested positions on charter schools in three arenas: media debates, national policy and local school reform. In media debates, civil society actors--including teachers' unions, think tanks and print media--engage in polarized exchanges notable for their…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Charter Schools, Privatization, Printed Materials
Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2004
In this article, the author features the America's Choice School Design, a school improvement program that has enlisted 547 schools in 16 states in its brand of comprehensive reform, and describes the program's move to loosen its nonprofit moorings and change to a for-profit company. The purpose of the move to for-profit status is to raise capital…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Improvement Programs, School Restructuring, Federal Government
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Eib, B. J.; Miller, Pam – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006
When faculty development is viewed as an ongoing need and when we approach faculty development as a long-term, continuous effort, community building becomes a part of the process. Carefully designed faculty development approaches can facilitate and create a culture that supports a thoughtful focus on teaching, while at the same time, nurture a…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Open Universities, Collegiality, Foreign Countries
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1995
The Subcommittee heard testimony from seven witnesses and statements from three senators on whether or not it is in the Federal Government's best interest to divest itself of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), and the College Construction Loan Insurance Association (Connie Lee). Lawrence A. Hough of the Student Loan Marketing…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Mulholland, Lori A.; Bierlein, Louann A. – 1995
Charter schools may provide part of the answer to increased demand for restructuring and school accountability/autonomy. This handbook describes in detail the organization and operation of charter schools. Chapters define charter schools, describe their appeal and the approval process, present a model charter-school structure, discuss innovative…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Payne, James L. – 1995
The privatization of schools and school services is strenuously opposed by trade unions representing school district employees. This paper examines the opposing arguments advanced by the National Education Association and finds that the objections involve two distinct points: (1) the economic role of profit; and (2) idealism in the schools. The…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Contracts, Costs, Educational Economics
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