Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ422287
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1991
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Deregulation and Privatization of Education: A Flawed Concept.
Brown, Frank; Contreras, A. Reynaldo
Education and Urban Society, v23 n2 p144-58 Feb 1991
Challenges the following assumptions: (1) parental choice will motivate schools to improve programs to compete more effectively for students; (2) private not-for-profit schools will respond to marketplace incentives; (3) research indicates an advantage of private over public organizations; (4) public choice theory promotes school improvement; and (5) choices are equal for all families. (AF)
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Free Enterprise System, Futures (of Society), Inner City, Politics of Education, Private Education, Privatization, Public Education, Public Policy, School Choice, Social Stratification, Urban Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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