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Molnar, Alex – 1996
Corporate involvement in public education is nothing new. This book offers a critique of the growing corporate control and commercialization of public schools. Chapter 1 describes the history of business influence on American education with a focus on the case of Wisconsin, in which the corporate-led restructuring of the American economy has…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Charter Schools, Corporate Support, Educational Vouchers
Bailey, Albertina; And Others – 1996
The last 2 decades of the 20th century have witnessed a growing movement to reform the American education system. While people debate why and how reform should be accomplished new initiatives are being developed and applied in many different areas: student performance standards, curricular innovation, assessment, accountability, professional…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Educational Change
Murphy, Joseph – 1996
Views about privatization's advantages and disadvantages vary widely in the educational research literature. These disparate views are shaped by reviewers' frames of reference and the evaluation criteria that they use. This book was written to help readers develop more refined lenses for viewing the privatization movement. Chapter 1 asserts that…
Descriptors: Contracts, Corporate Support, Decentralization, Educational Assessment
Schmieder, June; And Others – 1996
The opportunity to increase private company revenues and the pressure to minimize losses within a public school district's cafeteria and general funds have propelled the emergence of private food-service-management companies (FSMCs). This paper presents findings of a study that examined privatization of school food services and its effect on the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Contracts, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Finn, Chester E., Jr. – 1996
Most of the industrialized world retains an obsolete, tracked, multitiered public education system that prepares some children for university and others for blue-collar jobs. This educational design neglects changes in technology, family structure, and community life, and its bureaucratized management values uniformity and process over initiative…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Cazares, Patricia – 1997
During the early 1990s, the Hartford, Connecticut, public school system experienced serious financial problems and a downward trend in the key indicators of educational success. In 1994 the Hartford, Connecticut, board of education granted Education Alternatives, Incorporated (EAI), a 5-year contract to manage the school district. This paper…
Descriptors: Contracts, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Hood, John – 1991
This essay offers an analysis and critique of business involvement in public elementary and secondary education. An opening section suggests that of the initiatives launched in the past, many have been only cosmetic and based more on slogans and fads than on meaningful reform proposals. The essay goes on to suggest a more thorough identification…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Economic Impact
Pacific Telecommunications Council, Honolulu, HI. – 1993
This packet of materials from the Mid-Year Seminar of the Pacific Telecommunications Council begins with lists of attendees and participants and the conference agenda. Papers include the following: (1) "Global Trends-Restructuring, Privatization, Finance, Investment: Worldwide Trends towards Liberalizing the Wireless Segment of…
Descriptors: Change, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Kirkpatrick, David W. – 1990
The educational reform movement produced only incremental improvements in student achievement, prompting a need for greater focus on structural and cultural aspects of school organization. Parental choice is the necessary element for successful school reform in the future. The public educational system that has evolved in America is widely…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bureaucracy, Educational Change, Educational Demand
Gilmer, Scott W. – 1997
Colleges and universities are privatizing various institutional components and are seeking greater autonomy from state government. In defining privatization, the paper makes the distinction between privatizing and contracting, and notes six areas where a good or service can be owned or managed by the government or by the private sector: ownership…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Contracts, Financial Policy
Wisconsin State Legislative Audit Bureau, Madison. – 1997
The Children At Risk program was created in Wisconsin in 1985 with the broad goal of reducing the number of students at risk of failing in or dropping out of school. The program requires all school districts to identify children at risk, including dropouts, truants, parents, or adjudicated delinquents, who are behind their age group in either…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Delinquency, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Kozeracki, Carol – 1998
This digest reviews the literature examining ways in which the academic world is shifting toward more entrepreneurial approaches for running an institution and examines some programs that have been developed both at the community college and the senior college level. Reasons cited for the shift toward entrepreneurial ways of operating include cuts…
Descriptors: Colleges, Community Colleges, Corporate Support, Economic Opportunities
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Fitz, John; Beers, Bryan – Comparative Education, 2002
British government policies promoting public-private partnerships enabled the privatization of failing schools. In the U.S., the private sector has drawn upon a political network of well-financed institutions to advance privatized education, most recently among charter schools. Privatization has not yet been very successful, but promises to be…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Comparative Education, Corporations, Educational Administration
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Brown, Frank – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Explores the theories and concepts of privatizing public school services. It is argued that education is a required service for all children, and, unlike business and industry, private education providers cannot fire their unwanted clients, i.e., poor-performing students, parents, or teachers. The issue of efficiency vs effectiveness is addressed…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Cooperation, Educational Economics, Educational Improvement
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Hunter, Richard C. – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Analyzes the private procurement of noninstructional goods and services and provides information about this movement that suggests individuals are looking for a "quick fix" for educational problems. It examines problems with contracting out for services and shows the strain this places on urban superintendents. Finally, an analysis of contracting…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Educational Administration, Educational Cooperation, Educational Improvement
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