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Minina, Vera – Lifelong Learning in Europe, 2001
Changes in Russian education are described: one-third of children are being educated at home; state universities face dwindling financial support; private institutions are being established; freedom of curriculum design has replaced uniform pedagogical processes; and new forms of higher education are emerging. (SK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Bell McKenzie, Kathryn; Joseph Scheurich, James – Educational Theory, 2004
Our review of Henry Giroux's Stealing Innocence, Alex Molnar's Giving Kids the Business, and Kenneth Saltman's Collateral Damage describes how these authors assess the problems posed by contemporary corporate influences on public schools and considers the solutions they offer to counter those influences. We also examine Henry Levin's edited…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Privatization, Public Schools, School Business Relationship
Rhoades, Gary; Maldonado-Maldonado, Alma; Ordorika, Imanol; Velazquez, Martin – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
In this article, the authors detail the conditions and patterns of academic capitalism and the new economy in US higher education. Subsequently, a conceptual model is offered for considering the international reach and national and local patterns of academic capitalism. Further, a distinctive Mexican case of entrepreneurialism is offered. The…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Universities, Latin Americans, Higher Education
Farnsworth, Kevin – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
New Labour promised to introduce dramatic reforms to the education system when it came to power in 1997 and one of the key strategies it employed in the pursuit of educational improvement was the utilisation of the methods of the private sector. Arguably its most controversial policy was its effective privatisation of the functions of "failing"…
Descriptors: Business, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Private Sector
Kinser, Kevin; Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2005
Analyses of private higher education should consider the increasingly important for-profit sector in many countries. Yet information on the for-profit sector has been quite limited. Even in the United States, where for-profit higher education is well-established, only recently have researchers turned their attention to studying its scope and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Private Sector, Private Colleges
Wilson, Steven F. – Brookings Institution, The: Brown Center on Education Policy, 2005
The proliferation of high-quality independent charter schools is constrained by the shortage of founders committed to evidence-based school designs and possessing the broad-ranging skills to make good on their audacious plans. The time and energies of such exceptional leaders are deployed over years in building schools that rarely reach more than…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Privatization, School Restructuring, Politics of Education
Kemerer, Frank R.; Maloney, Catherine – 2001
This article explores how the law currently influences accountability in three different privatization contexts: (1) private schools operated independently of the state; (2) public schools operated by private organizations under charter or subcontract with government entities; and (3) private schools participating in publicly-funded voucher…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Educational Administration, Educational Vouchers
Menell, Seth J.; Phelps, Richard P. – 2001
This paper provides a detailed examination of "contracting," a type of privatization, and is intended to clarify the issues surrounding decisions to privatize public services. Privatization introduces competition among market participants as a means of generating revenue, spurring development of an industry, and/or improving the quality of…
Descriptors: Contracts, Educational Administration, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education
IIEP Newsletter, 2001
This newsletter focuses on matters related to the privatization of education in different contexts around the world. Over the past few years, the International Institute for Educational Planning has carried out a number of studies in a wide range of contexts to identify what the real-life experiments in school organization are, why they have…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lubienski, Chris – 2001
Concerned about the deadening effects of standardization imposed by monopolistic education bureaucracies, policymakers in many different countries endorse economic-style mechanisms of consumer choice and competition between autonomous providers as the key elements of "market-driven" education. The reasoning behind this approach is that market…
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, Educational Economics, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Belfield, Clive R. – 2001
Increasingly, education systems are being privatized through various changes to organizational structures, to school management, and to funding mechanisms. Yet education remains publicly funded and therefore accountable to taxpayer preferences through voting mandates. This paper investigates the determinants of political support for the…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes

David, Miriam – Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 1998
Provides a feminist critique of the literature on parental involvement and school choice. Two research studies demonstrate mothers' critical importance in their children's education at home and at school. Mothers normally invest more time and energy than fathers in child-rearing and school associations. Working-class boys' underachievement may…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Feminism
Whittle, Christopher – School Administrator, 1997
The entrepreneur behind the Edison Project and Channel One shares his observations about the unfairness of public school critics, the "tyranny" of operational demands, and the promise of national school companies for underemployed teachers and research and development ventures. Praising public schools for being receptive to new concepts,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Entrepreneurship, Privatization

Lovoy, Thomas A. – Clearing House, 1996
Notes how the British Army's Officer Corps, based on elitism and financial standing, brought the British Empire to its knees. Argues that privatization--a for-profit market system to ration out education--would have a similar effect. Suggests that charter schools (with considerable autonomy but still held accountable by the chain of command) are…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education

Blasik, Katherine A.; Hodges, Ernest V. E. – ERS Spectrum, 1997
Describes the Broward County (Florida) Research and Evaluation Department's assessment of a Sylvan Learning Systems remedial reading program employed in two district schools during 1993-94. Sylvan staff adequately equipped both sites, appropriately used diagnostic tests for placing students, implemented motivation and direct-instruction…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Partnerships in Education, Privatization, Program Evaluation