Discusses public sector information technology (IT) funding problems, focusing on ways to improve government budgeting for IT. Presents three broad categories of insights from a Harvard workshop: Proposals to Improve Participation in the IT Budgeting Process; Proposals to Develop Better IT Investment Portfolios; Proposals to Utilize…

Examines three non-deliberate models which reinscribe the suppression of indifference of the bourgeois public sphere in public deliberation. Explains the primary implication has been the construction of separate realms of public and private and particular discourse forms for each realm. Asserts that ends eventually must be determined by…

Emphasis upon creation of a culture of lifelong learning propels the issue of accessibility to guidance for adults into the limelight. Career services and other career-guidance providers demonstrate a commitment to all-age guidance in the absence of coherent policy, and are wrestling with ambiguities inherent in the "private/public"…

Discusses the influence of employee race/ethnicity and gender identity, associated stereotyping and prejudice, and the nature of interpersonal relations on acceptance of diversity and support for diversity-management initiatives. A case study of 160 supervisors and 350 employees illustrates which factors influence employee support for diversity in…

A comparison of 47 public- and 170 private-sector workers revealed private-sector workers value good wages most and public-sector workers value interesting work. Results suggest that employers must keep in touch with employee values to design jobs, reward systems, and human-resource policies that will result in maximum job satisfaction. (JOW)

A public entity facing an environmental cleanup can take certain measures to dramatically increase its chance of coverage. Argues that many comprehensive general-liability insurance policies have coverage if the pollution is "sudden and accidental." (MLF)

Describes what went on as a "Children's Plan" was being designed to meet the needs of children in a state with a very high juvenile incarceration rate. The state program was to be compared with a contemporaneous private sector program, but the private program was taken over by the state after two years, thus making comparison impossible. (JPS)

Five new realities affect community problem solving: (1) fewer public dollars; (2) increased local/regional responsibility; (3) renewed focus on local government integrity; (4) wider distribution of community power; and (5) increasingly diverse population. Communities that prosper practice collaborative problem solving and consensus-based decision…

Examines concepts and ideas behind the practice of distance education, including commercialization; the role of public institutions and private sector firms; a vision to open the process of learning to new possibilities; and barriers to distance education, including legal, administrative, and financial. (LRW)

Discuss advantages and disadvantages of the privatization of public schools, including for-profit companies and charter schools. (PKP)

Suggests that our combined public, private, corporate, and proprietary system of postsecondary education can be best understood as a complex interaction of various types of markets, governmental policies, disciplinary associations, and institutional actors. Proposes a model for explaining how these factors interact to form the "system" of American…

Discussion of leadership development in the nation's institutions of higher education considers the need for a different kind of leadership in a changing nation; new opportunities for leadership particularly in the emerging nongovernmental public sector; increasingly widespread recognition that leaders are developed, not born; and demonstrated…

Describes partnership between public and private sectors to build an elementary school in Abbotsford, British Columbia, including the context, the participants, the school, special features of the partnership, the financing, the nature of the relationship, an evaluation by the major partners, and lessons learned and questions raised. Includes five…

Since its publication in 1983, "A Nation at Risk" has caused several waves and ripples of educational reform. This article puts that report in the context of earlier responses to perceived education crises. One such important response was from the private sector: the New American Schools Development Corporation (NAS). NAS attempted to create,…

The last five years have seen a significant increase in the involvement of the private sector in the core areas of education delivery and not just in the provision of educational support services. This growing involvement of the private sector in education has been commented on in the press and in debates on education, but it is often…