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Von Kopp, Botho – Comparative Education Review, 1991
Describes recent structural, curricular, and ideological changes in Czechoslovakian schools: closure of many business-operated vocational schools, declining vocational enrollment, localization of educational decision making, emergence of private and religious schools, church-state conflicts over ownership of school buildings, emphasis on…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship

Przeworski, Adam – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1991
Discusses the fall of communism in eastern Europe. Applies Latin America models to eastern Europe. Suggests that revolutions are shaped by the systems against which they are directed. Concludes that the problems of eastern Europe are not caused by the system so much as by geography. Argues that poor capitalism may lie in the future for eastern…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)

Miron, Louis F.; Brooks, Cormell – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1993
Explores inherent tensions between the substance of school board reform and the ideology of governance reform. New Orleans's unique culture of privatization has historically constrained grass-roots involvement in educational reform. A recent exception is a highly motivated, parent-based Education Issues Committee that successfully overhauled the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Rist, Marilee C. – Executive Educator, 1991
U.S. Roman Catholic schools, noted for their history of academic success and worried about rising costs and declining enrollment, have launched a nationwide marketing campaign called "Discover Catholic Schools 1992." Expenses are up because religious order membership is down. The campaign coincides with President Bush's promotion of privatization…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems

Weicher, John C. – Society, 1998
Describes ways many cities are managing to deliver better municipal services for less money, through competition and privatization. The impact of such changes on developing nations is explored. Although not explicitly stated, there are implications for public education through the private sector. (SLD)
Descriptors: City Government, Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations

Hanson, E. Mark – Journal of Educational Administration, 1998
Explains key issues and forces that shape organization and management strategies of educational decentralization, using examples from Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Spain. Core decentralization issues include national and regional goals, planning, political stress, resource distribution, infrastructure development, and job…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Developing Nations, Educational Policy

Haug, R. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 1999
Agricultural extension is grappling with concerns about the future role of the public sector. Public-private partnerships may combine the advantages of both sectors. However, privatization may also lead to commercialization and marginalization of small-scale farmers. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Extension Education
Agron, Joe – American School & University, 1997
Discusses privatization of noneducational services to help schools and universities cut costs, and presents survey results from public schools and colleges concerning their level and type of outsourcing. Included are reasons for and against privatization, the most common contracts involved, and indications of whether the outsourcing trend will…
Descriptors: Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Johnson, Donald R. – School Business Affairs, 2001
Privatization will not go away. As public schools privatize more and more educational services, differences between enrollment in public and private schools will blur. Private corporations can more easily adopt new service-delivery technologies. States and school districts are responding with public-school choice and tuition tax credits. (MLH)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Private Schools, Privatization

Paterson, Frances R. A. – Journal of Law and Education, 2000
Examines the view of the law presented to American students enrolled in Christian schools by analyzing how the textbooks used by a significant number of Christian schools treat the constitutional jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. (Contains 177 footnotes.) (MLF)
Descriptors: Conservatism, Content Analysis, Court Litigation, Curriculum

Tancer, Robert S. – Journal of Language for International Business, 1995
Presents a brief history of direct foreign investment in Cuba since 1982. This investment currently plays an important role in Cuba as a replacement to Soviet aid and as a means to earn foreign exchange. Tourism and mining are the preferred area for foreign investment because both of these sectors offer hard currency returns for Cuba. (20…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy

Chan, David; Mok, Ka-Ho – Comparative Education, 2001
Compares trends toward privatization and marketization of public education in socialist mainland China and capitalist Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China. Discusses policy shifts on the mainland toward decentralization, diversified educational services, and reduced government funding, and Hong Kong's efforts to promote…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Policy

VanHorn-Grassmeyer, Kimberly; Stoner, Kenneth L. – New Directions for Student Services, 2001
Focuses on partnerships between institutions of higher education and private providers of services, particularly as they relate to traditional student affairs functions. Presents examples of successful outsourcing partnerships to illustrate the potential of this type of service provision. (Contains 11 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: College Administration, Delivery Systems, Educational Cooperation, Higher Education
Agron, Joe – American School & University, 1999
Discusses a non-traditional approach to school planning and redesign that provided one school district's middle school with the best learning environment for its students and community. The use of performance contracting and privatization of school services are addressed, including the benefits of the positive student response to their new school.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Middle Schools, Performance Contracts

Karsten, Sjoerd – Comparative Education, 1999
Traces the development of Dutch educational policy since the compromise of 1917, by which private and public schools were given equal financial support. Examines the extent to which neoliberal reforms of the 1980s brought about radical changes in the Dutch education system, focusing on increased autonomy, freedom of school choice, privatization,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education