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Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul; Schargrodsky, Ernesto – Journal of Political Economy, 2005
While most countries are committed to increasing access to safe water and thereby reducing child mortality, there is little consensus on how to actually improve water services. One important proposal under discussion is whether to privatize water provision. In the 1990s Argentina embarked on one of the largest privatization campaigns in the world,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Water, Privatization
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Herd, Pamela – Gerontologist, 2005
Decades of conservative attempts to scale back Social Security and Medicare, by limiting the program's universality through means testing and drastic benefit cuts, have failed. Thus, after numerous unsuccessful attempts at dismantling the U.S.'s universal old-age welfare state, or even meaningfully restraining its growth, conservative critics have…
Descriptors: Public Support, Privatization, Living Standards, Public Policy
Beem, Kate – School Administrator, 2004
It is such a simple mandate: Prepare healthy, nutritious meals for the schoolchildren so they can go about the business of learning. But operating a school district food service department is anything but simple. Even in the smallest districts, food service operations are businesses that must comply with many more rules than those in the private…
Descriptors: Purchasing, Nutrition, Food Service, Privatization
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Lipman, Pauline; Haines, Nathan – Educational Policy, 2007
This article analyzes Chicago's new Renaissance 2010 school plan to close public schools and reopen them as choice and charter schools. Grounding the analysis in participatory research methods, the authors argue that Chicago's education accountability policies have laid the groundwork for privatization. They furthermore argue that Renaissance 2010…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Privatization, Participatory Research, Accountability
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Smyth, John – Teacher Development, 2007
As public schools in countries like the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand continue to suffer from the damaging effects of poorly conceptualized educational reforms, educators struggle to come up with alternatives with which to reclaim schools. While acknowledging the situational, contextual and temporal differences between these…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Principles
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Hentschke, Guilbert C.; Wohlstetter, Priscilla – Educational Policy, 2007
The authors of the articles in this issue have provided a descriptive, analytic view of the politics of privatization, not a normative one. They have elected to view privatization more as a basic tool of government, with both uses and limitations, than strictly as an issue of ideology. Through their examination of the nexus between privatization…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education, Privatization, Policy Analysis
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Clawson, Dan; Leiblum, Mishy – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2008
Public higher education has undergone a process similar to that in the national polity: a one-sided struggle by those with power to shape the institution to be more market driven, more focused on what will generate (non-state) revenues, more dominated by top administrators, and less concerned about the working class and people of color. This…
Descriptors: Working Class, Affirmative Action, Social Class, Social Influences
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Cech, Roman; Marks, Melanie Beth – Social Studies, 2007
The typical method of presenting supply and demand in high school classes often leaves students with an impression that markets are simple and function effortlessly. In reality, the effectiveness of markets depends on the quality of complex institutions such as private property and property-rights enforcement. Students often do not realize that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supply and Demand, Economics, Private Sector
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Burch, Patricia; Steinberg, Matthew; Donovan, Joseph – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
The supplemental educational services (SES) provision of No Child Left Behind introduces a federally mandated after-school tutoring intervention in schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress. This article examines market dynamics in relationship to the law's goals of expanding access to and improving the quality of after-school…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Benchmarking
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Wilkinson, Gary – Educational Review, 2007
As part of its agenda to promote choice, diversity and parent power in education, New Labour is aiming to develop a system of independent non-fee paying state schools. It is envisaged that control of the governing arrangements in such schools will shift from the local authority and be delegated to a range of external partners and sponsors drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Schools, Public Education, Privatization
Natale, Jo Anna – Executive Educator, 1993
Superintendent Philip Geiger recently risked unpopularity in one suburban New Jersey district by privatizing the bus service and using savings for a truckload of classroom computers. Armed with an MBA and a passion for zero-based budgeting, Geiger has also braved union displeasure by advocating faculty workload increases in students' interest. An…
Descriptors: Biographies, Business Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization
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Zerkel, Mary – Radical Teacher, 2002
Describes the long-term effort to build leadership and strengthen the movement for economic justice. The effort involved working with community organizations and unions already organized around a local issue to link local issues with global economics. The focus on economic justice work led to working with groups that had been marginalized under…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Local Issues, Minority Groups, Privatization
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Motani, Yoko – Comparative Education, 2005
A variety of perspectives exist on the evaluation of Japan's educational reform of 2002, which has evolved since the 1980s. However, thus far, little attention has been paid to the emerging influence of civil society on educational policies and practices. This paper shows that the origin of the current educational reforms can be traced to reports…
Descriptors: Globalization, Foreign Countries, Privatization, Progressive Education
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Cooper, Bruce S.; Randall, E. Vance – Educational Policy, 2008
Supporters of public education fear attempts to privatize schools, while the private sector has always struggled against the monopolistic power of the public schools that educates almost 90% of all K-12 students. This trepidation has recently been intensified by the creation of a "third sector" that includes charter schools, voucher…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Privatization
Kachur, Jerrold L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This article is a compilation of the views of 16 PhD students and the author on Steven Klees' 2007 article titled, "A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education: Misleading analyses and failed policies." The students and the author have taken Klees' article as a stimulus to try and explicate the anatomy of the decline of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
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