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Buschman, John – American Libraries, 1990
Discusses the role of information technology in libraries and suggests that more questions need to be asked about its proper role. Topics discussed include the relationship of technological advances to social progress; private versus public sector control; changing values of librarianship; social and political implications; and access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Technology, Library Automation, Political Issues
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Lambropoulos, Haris S. – Economics of Education Review, 1992
Uses Greek data for 1981 and 1985 to test screening hypothesis by replicating method proposed by Psacharopoulos. Credentialism, or sheepskin effect of education, directly challenges human capital theory, which views education as a productivity augmenting process. Results do not support the strong version of the screening hypothesis and suggest…
Descriptors: Credentials, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Black, David C.; Dowd, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 1994
Asserts that economics students are usually given two descriptions of the money market with the implication that they are consistent with each other. Reviews recent research and presents an asset-substitution model that reconciles the two descriptions of the money market with observed behavior. (CFR)
Descriptors: Banking, Course Content, Economic Factors, Economics Education
Schuman, Patricia Glass – Library Journal, 1998
Argues that recent decisions to outsource library collection development are not isolated incidents but attempts to privatize whole core services and even management of libraries. Examines three misconceptions about the private sector: that it can do it better and cheaper, that accountability to the marketplace is more effective than government,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
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Robinson, Maynard; Daigle, Stephen – Planning for Higher Education, 1999
Examines factors underlying the California Educational Technology Initiative (CETI), a failed public-private partnership intended to develop the technology infrastructure of the 23 California State University campuses. Analysis focuses on the necessity for commitment to change by all partners in advance of initiating the partnership venture.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Higher Education, Long Range Planning, Partnerships in Education
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Woods, Glenys J.; Woods, Philip A. – Journal of Education Policy, 2005
The work presented here follows up the authors' paper, in the previous issue of this journal, which (i) explored modernizing leadership in a public-private partnership, principally from the perspective of the senior managers of a private company contracted to run school support services by a local education authority (LEA), and (ii) suggested that…
Descriptors: Leadership, School Districts, Public Service, Public Sector
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
Many critics do censure marketers of junk food for their part in inundating every private and public space with health-harming products and slick advertisements. The author focuses on one such company to illustrate how the dangerous influences of corporate ideology on schooling effect much more than public health--they also work to shape the ways…
Descriptors: Corporations, Institutional Role, Public Sector, Public Education
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Chater, Mark – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
Management's current self-consciousness as a young but privileged discipline situated among other fields of knowledge is critically interpreted. The praxis of management is found to lack characteristics of stability and self-reflection belonging to other, older academic disciplines. The use of the concept of "gods of mismanagement" is an…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Public Sector, Ethics, Organizational Theories
Cunningham, Alisa F.; Erisman, Wendy; Looney, Shannon E. – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2008
This report examines access to higher education in underserved regions of Michigan. This study focuses on specific concerns about postsecondary education access in three geographically diverse areas of the state: suburban Macomb County; the city of Saginaw; and six rural counties in the northeastern Lower Peninsula. The report provides a summary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Counties, Context Effect
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
Public bodies hold a range of information and content ranging from demographic, economic and meteorological data to art works, historical documents and books. Given the availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) public sector information can play an important role in producing innovative value-added services and goods.…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Information Sources, Access to Information, Information Utilization
Karam, Gebran – International Education Journal, 2006
The current status of the Lebanese vocational and technical education (VTE) system is assessed and the strategic issues and challenges facing it are identified. In addition to the economic and social challenges that are common to many developing countries, the Lebanese system suffers from idiosyncratic problems, which may require innovative and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Private Sector, Foreign Countries, Technical Education
Poole, Wendy – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2007
Since the election of the Campbell government in 2001, teachers have experienced heightened conflict with the provincial government. An analysis of the discourse and power relations between the BC Teachers' Federation (BCTF) and government reveals a neo-liberal agenda on the part of government and anti-neo-liberalism on the part of the BCTF.…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Hannaway, Jane, Ed.; Rotherham, Andrew J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2006
This comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come. Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Understanding collective bargaining in education and its impact on the day-to-day life of schools is critical to…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Unions, Educational Change, Educational History
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Fox, Robert A.; Buchanan, Nina K. – Journal of School Choice, 2006
Virtually all state charter school legislation addresses teacher rights and working environment. Relationships with teacher unions are either specified in the law, or approval of the charter requires suitable provisions for employee hiring, firing, grievances, etc. Charter school evaluation almost without exception includes some references to…
Descriptors: Teacher Rights, Charter Schools, School Attitudes, Teacher Participation
Colorado Advanced Tech. Inst., Denver. – 1994
Recognizing the importance of technology transfer to economic growth, the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) provided the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute (CATI) with a grant to coordinate the development of a plan for using technology transfer in Colorado's economic development. The plan, outlined in this report, describes the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Information Dissemination, Information Transfer, Private Sector
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