Privatizing education
Subtitle: can the marketplace deliver choice, efficiency, equity, and social cohesion?
By: edited by Henry M. Levin
Contributors: Levin, Henry M
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Privatization in education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Studying privatization in education / Henry M. Levin; title: Educational vouchers and the media / Lee D. Mitgang and Christopher V. Connell. Implementation issues. The legal status of privatization and vouchers in education / Frank R. Kemerer; title: Information and choice in educational privatization / Mark Schneider. Preschools and higher education. Preschools and privatization / Ellen Magenheim; title: Privatization in higher education / Arthur Levine. International dimensions. Privatization through vouchers in developing countries : the cases of Chile and Colombia / Martin Carnoy and Patrick J. McEwan; title: Privatization in industrialized countries / Geoffrey Walford. Charter schools. Assessing the growth and potential of charter schools / Pearl Rock Kane and Christopher J. Lauricella; title: Privatization and charter school reform : economic, political and social dimensions / Amy Stuart Wells and Janelle Scott. Perspectives of stakeholders. Vouchers, privatization, and the poor / Gary Natriello; title: Teachers and privatization / Caroline Hodges Persell. Evaluation designs. Criteria for evaluating school voucher studies / Devid E. Myers; title: Designing education voucher experiments : recommendations for researchers, funders, and users / Fred Doolittle and Wendy Connors