The Market Approach To Education

Author : John F. Witte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400823314

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The Market Approach to Education by John F. Witte Pdf

Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of emotional debate it provoked nationwide. In this book, John Witte provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education. In a society supposedly devoted to equality of opportunity, the concept of school choice or voucher programs raises deep issues about liberty versus equality, government versus market, and about our commitment to free and universal education. Witte brings a balanced perspective to the picture by demonstrating why it is wrongheaded to be pro- or anti-school choice in the abstract. He explains why the voucher program seems to be working in the specific case of Milwaukee, but warns that such programs would not necessarily promote equal education--and most likely harm the poor--if applied universally, across the socioeconomic spectrum. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the provision of education in America. It goes on to situate the issue of school choice historically and politically, to describe the program and private schools in Milwaukee, and to provide statistical analyses of the outcomes for children and their parents in the experiment. Witte concludes with some persuasive arguments about the importance of specifying the structural details of any choice program and with a call supporting vouchers for poor inner-city children, but not a universal program for all private schools. Voucher programs continue to be the most controversial approach to educational reform. The Market Approach to Education provides a thorough review of where the choice debate stands through 1998. It not only includes the "Milwaukee story" but also provides an analysis of the role, history, and politics of court decisions in this most important First Amendment area.

Author : Leonard Billet,Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118930630

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The Free Market Approach to Educational Reform by Leonard Billet,Rand Corporation Pdf

Author : James Tooley
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781939709134

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The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley Pdf

Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart of education. This book follows Tooley in his travels from the largest shanty town in Africa to the mountains of Gansu, China, and of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and learning to save themselves. Now in paperback with a new postscript, The Beautiful Tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in some of the world's poorest communities. It is a book about what is going right, and powerfully demonstrates how the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can be found in every corner of the globe.

Author : Elchanan Cohn
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080425674

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Market Approaches to Education by Elchanan Cohn Pdf

Contains essays that address the debate on school choice and vouchers. This book contains three major parts such as: Theory and Practice of Choice in Education; Are Private Schools Superior to Public Schools; and Empirical Studies of School Choice and Vouchers. It also provides opinions on the role of government in education.

Author : Michael Q. McShane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844772704

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Education and Opportunity by Michael Q. McShane Pdf

In Education and Opportunity, Michael McShane explains why a quality education is foundational to the future success of our children. However, despite unprecedented levels of federal funding and numerous reforms, many students in America's current school system never enjoy the excellent education that puts social and vocational success within reach. McShane proposes a market-based approach to education that fosters innovation through liberalization, and provides stabilizing measures and institutions that will make a decentralized education system as effective as possible.

Author : Anders Bjorklund,Melissa A. Clark,Per-Anders Edin,Peter Fredricksson,Alan B. Krueger
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610440554

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The Market Comes to Education in Sweden by Anders Bjorklund,Melissa A. Clark,Per-Anders Edin,Peter Fredricksson,Alan B. Krueger Pdf

A large central government providing numerous public services has long been a hallmark of Swedish society, which is also well-known for its pursuit of equality. Yet in the 1990s, Sweden moved away from this tradition in education, introducing market-oriented reforms that decentralized authority over public schools and encouraged competition between private and public schools. Many wondered if this approach would improve educational quality, or if it might expand inequality that Sweden has fought so hard to hold down. In The Market Comes to Education in Sweden, economists Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger measure the impact of Sweden's bold experiment in governing and help answer the questions that societies across the globe have been debating as they try to improve their children's education. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden injects some much-needed objectivity into the heavily politicized debate about the effectiveness of educational reform. While advocates for reform herald the effectiveness of competition in improving outcomes, others suggest that the reforms will grossly increase educational inequality for young people. The authors find that increased competition did help improve students' math and language skills, but only slightly, and with no effect on the performance of foreign-born students and those with low-educated parents. They also find some signs of increasing school segregation and wider inequality in student performance, but nothing near the doomsday scenarios many feared. In fact, the authors note that the relationship between family background and school performance has hardly budged since before the reforms were enacted. The authors conclude by providing valuable recommendations for school reform, such as strengthening school evaluation criteria, which are essential for parents, students, and governments to make competent decisions regarding education. Whether or not the market-oriented reforms to Sweden's educational system succeed will have far reaching implications for other countries considering the same course of action. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden offers firm empirical answers to the questions raised by school reform and brings crucial facts to the debate over the future of schooling in countries across the world.

Author : Shannon P. Pratt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471775416

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The Market Approach to Valuing Businesses by Shannon P. Pratt Pdf

Your Best Approach to Determining Value If you're buying, selling, or valuing a business, how can you determine its true value? By basing it on present market conditions and sales of similar businesses. The market approach is the premier way to determine the value of a business or partnership. With convincing evidence of value for both buyers and sellers, it can end stalemates and get deals closed. Acclaimed for its empirical basis and objectivity, this approach is the model most favored by the IRS and the United States Tax Court-as long as it's properly implemented. Shannon Pratt's The Market Approach to Valuing Businesses, Second Edition provides a wealth of proven guidelines and resources for effective market approach implementation. You'll find information on valuing and its applications, case studies on small and midsize businesses, and a detailed analysis of the latest market approach developments, as well as: A critique of US acquisitions over the last twenty-five years An analysis of the effect of size on value Common errors in applying the market approach Court reactions to the market approach and information to help you avoid being blindsided by a litigation opponent Must reading for anyone who owns or holds a partial interest in a small or large business or a professional practice, as well as for CPAs consulting on valuations, appraisers, corporate development officers, intermediaries, and venture capitalists, The Market Approach to Valuing Businesses will show you how to successfully reach a fair agreement-one that will satisfy both buyers and sellers and stand up to scrutiny by courts and the IRS.

Author : Miguel Urquiola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9780674244238

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Markets, Minds, and Money by Miguel Urquiola Pdf

Free markets made US universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial universities saw they could meet the industrializing country's demand for expertise. They moved away from religiously inspired teaching, and market dynamics allowed them to surpass European competitors.

Author : Lawrence Busch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262036078

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Knowledge for Sale by Lawrence Busch Pdf

How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this. A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget cut. In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach. The rationale for the current thinking, Busch explains, comes from neoliberal economics, which calls for reorganizing society around the needs of the market. The market-influenced changes to higher education include shifting the cost of education from the state to the individual, turning education from a public good to a private good subject to consumer demand; redefining higher education as a search for the highest-paying job; and turning scholarly research into a competition based on metrics including number of citations and value of grants. Students, administrators, and scholars have begun to think of themselves as economic actors rather than seekers of knowledge. Arguing for active resistance to this takeover, Busch urges us to burst the neoliberal bubble, to imagine a future not dictated by the market, a future in which there is a more educated citizenry and in which the old dichotomies—market and state, nature and culture, and equality and liberty—break down. In this future, universities value learning and not training, scholarship grapples with society's most pressing problems rather than quick fixes for corporate interests, and democracy is enriched by its educated and engaged citizens.

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134483525

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Class Strategies and the Education Market by Stephen J. Ball Pdf

Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education. Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis around the key concepts of social closure, social capital, values and principles and risk, while bringing a broad range of up-to-date sociological theory to bear upon his subject. From this thorough analysis, valuable and thought-provoking insights emerge into the assiduous care and considerable effort and expenditure which goes into ensuring the educational success of the middle class child The middle classes are a sociological enigma, presenting the social researcher with considerable analytic and theoretical difficulties. Class Strategies and the Education Market provides a set of working tools for class analysis and the examination of class practices. Above all, it offers new ways of thinking about class theory and the relationships between classes in late modern society.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 13287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429886607

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Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs by Various Pdf

This set of 62 volumes, originally published between 1951 and 1999, amalgamates a wide breadth of literature on Special Educational Needs, with a particular focus on inclusivity, class management and curriculum theory. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of Education and those undertaking teaching qualifications.

Author : Joseph L. Bast,Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817939731

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Education and Capitalism by Joseph L. Bast,Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

The authors call on the need to combine education with capitalism. Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, they show how, if our schools were moved from the public sector to the private sector, they could once again do a superior job providing K–12 education.

Author : Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807776537

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Walking the Road by Marilyn Cochran-Smith Pdf

Mapping the way to reconceptualizing teacher education today, Marilyn Cochran-Smith guides the reader through the conflicting visions and ideologies surrounding the education of teachers for a diverse democratic society. “Our profession is at a critical crossroad. . . .We must accept Cochran–Smith’s challenge to speak loudly and articulately for social justice and democracy. Could our society face a more urgent or compelling issue?” —From the Foreword by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine "This volume represents not only the best of Cochran-Smith, it represents the best of teacher education. These essays are hard–hitting yet lyrical, provocative yet poetic, theoretically sophisticated yet practically useful. Teacher education is in good hands.” —Gloria Ladson–Billings, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Author : Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781786350459

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Education and Youth Today by Yasemin Besen-Cassino Pdf

This volume brings together the most recent and cutting edge research on the understanding of education. It focuses on the lived experience of the students in the context of different educational institutions. In doing so, it unravels layers of inequalities in the understanding of education.

Author : Judith Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441155023

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School, Community and Lifelong Learning by Judith Chapman Pdf

A volume which argues that, in order to give children the positive, successful and enthusiastic start in life that is necessary as a basis for the ideal of "lifelong learning", schools must be prepared to engage the community actively, while undertaking radical self-appraisal and renewal.