Private education and public policy in Latin America
By: edited by Laurence Wolff, Juan Carlos Navarro, Pablo González.
Contributors: Wolff, Laurence, 1941-; Navarro, Juan Carlos.; González, Pablo.; Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL)
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780977227105
Subjects: Private schools -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Education and state -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Education -- Economic aspects -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: "Examines the relationship between private education and public policy in Latin America by combining conceptual analysis with empirical research, and incorporating case studies from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Rev. and abridged translation of: Educación privada y política pública en América Latina.
Table of contents: title: Public or private education in Latin America?: asking the wrong question / Laurence Wolff and Claudio de Moura Castro; title: Private education: funding and (de)regulation in Argentina / Alejandro Morduchowicz; title: Private schools with public financing in Chile / Claudia Peirano and Jaime Vargas; title: Concessionary public schools in Bogotá: an innovation in school management in Colombia / Leonardo Villa and Jesús Duarte; title: The present and future of private education in Guatemala / Jorge Lavarreda, Vilma de Liú, and Manuel Menjívar; title: Publicly financed, privately run education in Peru: it still works / Juan Carlos Navarro; title: Subsidized Catholic schools in Venezuela / Rosa Amelia González and Gregorio Arévalo; title: The challenge of regulating private education / Pablo González; title: The challenge of delivering quality education / Juan Carlos Navarro; title: Public policy and private education: where to now? / Laurence Wolff.