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Low-fee private schooling and poverty in developing countries
In Low-fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries, Joanna H rm draws on primary research carried out in sub-Saharan African countries and in India to show how the poor are being failed by both government and private schools. The primary research data and experiences are combined with additional examples from around the world to offer a wide perspective on the issue of marketized education, low-fee private schooling and government systems. H rm offers a pragmatic approach to a divisive issue and an ideologically-driven debate and shows how the well-intentioned international drive towards 'education for all' is being encouraged and even imposed long before some countries have prepared the teachers and developed the systems needed to implement it successfully. Suggesting that governments need to take a much more constructive approach to the issue, H rm argues for a greater acceptance of the challenges, abandoning ideological positions and a scaling back of ambition in the hope of laying stronger foundations for educational development.
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Globalization and the neoliberal schoolhouse : education in a world of trouble
\"Critical questions of purpose, quality, choice, and access in public education have been key in processes of neoliberal globalization spanning the last four decades. The growing privatization of schools around the world has resulted in fundamental changes regarding the ways in which local systems of education are imagined and re-constructed. Schools and schooling are now increasingly (re)fashioned in alignment with global neoliberal imaginaries for the purpose of (re)producing human capital in the service of private interests. As a result, education for social betterment and democratic engagement, two pillars of public school policies throughout the 20th century, are compromised, even undermined. Employing models and research findings from critical international political economy and progressive education, Globalization and the Neoliberal Schoolhouse: Education in a World of Trouble explores the corrosive influences of commodification and privatization on public education worldwide, within the context of crisis-ridden neoliberal globalization and expanding global capitalist governance. The consequences are nation-state de-evolution, social and cultural decay, and the forfeiture of public schools as engines of progress. Understanding how the historical emergence, political economic processes, and governing institutions of neoliberal globalization are adversely impacting local systems of education - and what to do about it - is important to free education advocates, civic-minded educators, student teachers, social activists, and education development specialists everywhere!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Scholars in the marketplace
Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda's Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, it has implications for the whole continent. At the global level, the Makerere case exemplifies the fate of public universities in a market-oriented and capital friendly era. The Makerere reform began in the 1990s and was based on the premise that higher education is more of a private than a public good. Instead of pitting the public against the private, and the state against the market, this book shifts the terms of the debate toward a third alternative than explores different relations between the two. The book distinguishes between privatisation and commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform. It argues that whereas privatisation (the entry of privately sponsored students) is compatible with a public university where priorities are publicly set, commercialisation (financial and administrative autonomy for each faculty to design a market-responsive curriculum) inevitably leads to a market determination of priorities in a public university. The book warns against commercialisation of public universities as the subversion of public institutions for private purposes.
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Expelling Public Schools
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey—a conflict that is raging in cities across the country—from the vantage point of elites advancing the pro-privatization agenda and their grassroots challengers. Analyzing the unsuccessful effort of Cory Booker—Newark’s leading pro-privatization activist and mayor—to generate popular support for the agenda, and Booker’s rival and ultimate successor Ras Baraka’s eventual galvanization of the charter movement, Arena argues that Baraka’s black radical politics cloaked a revanchist agenda of privatization. Expelling Public Schools reveals the political rise of Booker and Baraka, their one-time rivalry and subsequent alliance, and what this particular case study illuminates about contemporary post–civil rights Black politics. Ultimately, Expelling Public Schools is a critique of Black urban regime politics and the way in which antiracist messaging obscures real class divisions, interests, and ideological diversity.
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School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy
Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K-12
education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in
poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater
inequality. But, as Robert Asen reveals here, the damage that
market-based education reform inflicts on society runs much deeper.
At their core, these efforts are antidemocratic.
Arguing that democratic communities and public education need
one another, Asen examines the theory driving privatization,
popularized in the neoliberalism of Milton and Rose Friedman, as
well as the case for school choice promoted by former secretary of
education Betsy DeVos and the controversial voucher program of
former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. What Asen finds is that a
market-based approach holds not just a different view of
distributing education but a different vision of society. When the
values of the market-choice, competition, and self-interest-shape
national education, that policy produces individuals, Asen
contends, with no connections to community and no obligations to
one another. The result is a society at odds with democracy.
Probing and thought-provoking, School Choice and the
Betrayal of Democracy features interviews with local,
on-the-ground advocates for public education and offers a
countering vision of democratic education-one oriented toward civic
relationships, community, and equality. This book is essential
reading for policymakers, advocates of public education, citizens,
and researchers.
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Hidden Markets
Across the U.S., test publishers, software companies, and research firms are swarming to take advantage of the revenues made available by the No Child Left Behind Act. In effect, the education industry has assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools—a trend that has gone largely unnoticed by policymakers or the press until now. Drawing on analytic tools, Hidden Markets examines specific domains that the education industry has had particular influence on—home schooling, remedial instruction, management consulting, test development, data management, and staff development. Burch's analysis demonstrates that only when we subject the education industry to systematic and in-depth critical analysis can we begin to demand more corporate accountability and organize to halt the slide of education funds into the market.
Chapter 1. Trends and Origins
Chapter 2. Inside the Market
Chapter 3. Privatization and its Intermediaries
Chapter 4. Shadow Privatization: Local Experiences with Supplemental Education Services
Chapter 5. Invisible Influences: For-Profit Firms and Virtual Charter Schools
Chapter 6. In the Interstices: Benchmark Assessments, District Contracts, and NCLB
Chapter 7. Working for Transparency
This book should not be interpreted as a polemic against NCLB or private providers, but instead it should be seen as turning the light on in the basement and exposing the dark corners...Burch is masterful at conveying a knowledge of the layers of policy in NCLB.\"-- Education Review , February 2010
Patricia Burch is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin—Madison.
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