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Marchelli, Helga Cuellar – 2001
This paper presents the most notorious decentralization and privatization policies of education delivery included in the 1995-2005 education reform plan and briefly explains some of the factors justifying their existence, potential success, and possible limitations. It also examines the capacity of a privatization strategy, contracting…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Regulation
Bailey, Thomas; Jacobs, James; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, 2004
This report presents the findings of exploratory research designed to identify the characteristics of the outsourcing of instruction at community colleges and the forces that promote or block its spread. It is the second in a series of reports by the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement and the Community College Research Center on the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Faculty, Privatization, Community Colleges
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Klingner, Donald E.; Lynn, Dahlia Bradshaw – Public Personnel Management, 1997
Today, public services are often delivered by purchase-of-service agreements, privatization, franchising, vouchers, or other alternatives to civil service. Public personnel managers must now deal with broader policy issues, relationships with external organizations, and tighter focus on cost control, requiring new knowledge, skills, and abilities.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change, Contracts, Government Employees
June, Audrey Williams – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Describes how some colleges are opening hotels, while others opt to turn existing lodgings over to professionals in the hospitality business. (EV)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Hospitality Occupations, Hotels
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Gibelman, Margaret; Lens, Vicki – Children & Schools, 2002
From a social work perspective, reviews the basic premises and values underlying the movement to privatize education through the use of voucher systems. Argues that publicly funded vouchers are not consistent with the aims of quality and equity and may have the unintended consequences of hindering the quest for education reform. (Contains 50…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Economics, Educational Vouchers, Privatization
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Demone, Harold W., Jr.; Gibelman, Margaret – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Discusses respective roles and responsibilities of public and private sectors in corrections field. Describes service contracting and use of private sector for rehabilitation programs carried out in community. Maintains the importance of assuring accountability and assessing the value of services, and the legitimacy of cooperation and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Health Services, Correctional Rehabilitation, Evaluation Methods
Goldberg, Mark F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Since 1987, Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke has made education his top priority. He strongly supports serious, autonomous schools, insists on accountability, and has impeccable education credentials. Recognizing a crisis in public education, Schmoke moved to save the system from further deterioration and opened it to responsible reform via…
Descriptors: Biographies, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Bennett, David A. – American School Board Journal, 1991
David A. Bennett served as an urban public school administrator for 20 years but is now president of Education Alternatives, Inc., a company dedicated to the concept of private management of public schools. Bennett proposes administering schools as public utilities--private management with public regulatory control. (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization, Public Schools
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Gilbert, Terry – Educational Leadership, 1993
Shows the gradual deterioration of the U.S. public education system, beginning with a hypothetical school district's acceptance of Channel One programing with two-minute commercials in 1990 and ending with Educate America's offer to pick up any costs not already borne by private enterprise (in exchange for adopting the group's curriculum) by 2010.…
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization, Public Education
Splitt, David A. – American School Board Journal, 1999
When contracting with private companies for support services, districts should define goals and requirements; develop requests for proposals; and create a team with legal, financial, user, and task-management expertise. Contracts should be in plain English, avoid open-ended lists, define terms, and specify service provision details. (MLH)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems
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Giroux, Henry A. – Educational Forum, 1999
Privatization undermines the role of public education in keeping democracy alive, offering consumerism as the only form of citizenship. Challenging the encroachment of corporatism is essential if democracy is to remain the defining principle of education and society. (SK)
Descriptors: Corporations, Democracy, Educational Principles, Equal Education
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Reviews "outsourcing" of technology services by institutions of higher education, including the College of Notre Dame (California) and East Tennessee State University, and finds that, although external companies, especially COLLEGIS, offer expertise and savings, they sometimes do not understand the special problems of an academic…
Descriptors: Consultants, Contracts, Higher Education, Information Management
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Sumner, Jennifer – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 1999
The privatizing agenda of corporate globalization is being abetted by such institutions as the World Bank. Educators are being told to accept its inevitability. However, adult educators can assert alternative values and help build a healthy civic society. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Corporations, Privatization
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Bauman, Zygmunt – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2005
The author initially describes several seminal and interconnected departures from the old social order which are currently happening and which are creating a new and indeed unprecedented setting for the educational process, thereby raising a series of never-before-encountered challenges for the educators. He then details how society is being…
Descriptors: Privatization, Expenditures, Global Approach, Labor Market
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Watkins, William H. – American Educational History Journal, 2006
A central argument of this essay suggests that the truth of globalization is little known to the body politic as it is enmeshed in the dynamics of capitalist accumulation, avarice, and despotism. This project hopes to first locate, and then unmask the realities of globalization, warts and all. Gaining some knowledge of globalization, the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Context Effect, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Approach
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