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Levin, Henry M. – 2001
Although the theory of the market is well understood, little is known about how for-profit schools will operate in practice. This paper considers why for-profit schooling has developed during the current period and not before (e.g., entrepreneurs must compete against heavily subsidized public schools, which limits their ability to charge prices…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System, Privatization
Miron, Gary; Nelson, Christopher – 2002
This book contains evidence about charter schools that can provide important data on evaluating this new public-private hybrid and its success at serving the core purpose of public education. The book focuses on charter schools in Michigan, which is regarded as having one of the most permissive charter laws in the country. The first three chapters…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education
Horn, Jerry; Miron, Gary – 1999
This is the final report of a one-year evaluation of the Michigan Public School Academy (PSA) initiative. The evaluation involved both formative and summative evaluations and used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study was conducted between October 1997 and December 1998. Data-collection methods included a charter-school survey and a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Shay, Sally A.; Gomez, Joseph J. – 2002
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the students who attended one elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, run by The Edison Project (Edison Schools, Inc.) made greater academic progress than comparable students who attended other district schools. The paper provides a longitudinal examination of the students' academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contracts, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Robertson, Susan L.; Bonal, Xavier; Dale, Roger – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Analyzes potential effects of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on the orientation and control of national education systems. Explains concepts of space, scale, and territorialization in relation to critical shifts in GATS's activity in education. Suggests that rescaling aspects of educational governance to the global level will…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economics of Education, Educational Trends, Governance
Bell, Anne – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1997
Describes the Ontario provincial government's "Lands for Life" program, which will allocate 46 million hectares of public lands to four uses: intensive forestry, multiple use, tourism, and protected areas. Expresses skepticism about government statements by juxtaposing the rhetoric with the record, with regard to environmental…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Foreign Countries, Forestry, Land Use
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Madsen, Jean – Journal of School Leadership, 1997
Summarizes a study that examined principals' leadership in three private schools and its implications for decentralized public schools. With the increase of charter and privatized managed schools, principals will need to redefine their leadership styles. Private schools, as decentralized entities, offer useful perspectives on developing school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Charter Schools, Decentralization, Elementary Education
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Elmore, Richard F. – Educational Leadership, 1991
In her zeal to advocate greater public school choice, Raywid criticizes the ASCD's "Public Schools of Choice" report unfairly. Raywid denigrates the importance of balancing public and private interests, claims that choice demands a form of rigorous social experimentation unsupported by research, and overlooks the report's positive guidance for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Evans, Kathy; Carroll, Ted – American School Board Journal, 1995
Hartford, Connecticut, hired Education Alternatives, Inc. (EAI), to help run the schools. EAI's key responsibility will be to help the school board implement their strategic plan for high and clear performance standards, improved assessment methods, more and better staff training, a decentralization of authority, and increased use of technology.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Contracts
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Molnar, Alex – Educational Leadership, 1995
Tainted by failure, rooted in myth, and marked by questionable practice, public-private partnerships in education are risky. Performance contracting failed miserably in the 1970s. Faulty privatization rationales include myths surrounding SAT test scores and the "bloated bureaucracy" and "money doesn't matter" arguments. Neither…
Descriptors: Class Size, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems
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Hurst, David S. – Educational Leadership, 1995
Educators cannot withstand the inevitable advance of alternative education and privatization efforts. Luckily, no one alternative will become the ultimate solution. Visionary educators can respond by adapting to new management and governance concepts, expecting increased accountability, creating teams, maintaining a customer orientation, planning…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Lazarewicz, Robert S. – School Administrator, 1994
As one Maryland district's experience shows, a district-operated food-and-nutrition service is capable of meeting student demands while maintaining a fiscally, administratively, and nutritionally sound program. Districts should first evaluate their food programs as to student satisfaction, financial health, performance and cost/savings incentives,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Food Service, Guidelines, Privatization
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Dykeman, Cass – School Counselor, 1995
Describes a study to determine the extent of present and projected future levels of school counseling privatization and to determine if differences in privatization exist in reference to school district enrollment size. Of 300 Washington school districts surveyed, 20% contracted to outside counseling providers. Privatization was significantly more…
Descriptors: Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization, Public Education
Harrington-Lueker, Donna – American School Board Journal, 1996
Privatization pioneer Education Alternatives Inc. (EAI) has lost contracts to manage schools in Baltimore, Maryland, and Hartford, Connecticut. EAI's backers claim the lost contracts are proof of an entrenched bureaucracy. Others fault the contracts for lack of specificity about roles, responsibilities, payments, and outcomes. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Private Sector, Privatization, Public Schools
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Dietz, Larry H.; Enchelmayer, Ernest J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2001
Summarizes the main points of this special issue on outsourcing in higher education by drawing together and relating conclusions, and speculating on the future of external partnerships. Also identifies some external partnerships and their specific nature. (GCP)
Descriptors: College Administration, Higher Education, Organizational Climate, Privatization
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