The privatization of state education : public partners, private dealings / Christopher Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Christopher, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Great Britain.

Education and state.

Privatization in education.

Great Britain.

Privatization in education--Great Britain.

Educational change--Great Britain.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

xv, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

Overcoming barriers to learning and raising standards of achievement are central efforts in education. In the UK, the government has made education its leading domestic priority and the centre of its drive to improve public services by using the private sector to bring about improvements and to break the status quo. Likewise, throughout the world private interests are now impinging heavily upon how state education is perceived; the 'educational apartheid' between state and private is diminishing across schools and local authorities. This book provides an incisive commentary on this rapidly changing phenomenon. It clarifies and evaluates a variety of policy initiatives and implementation issues in England and parallel developments elsewhere in the world.

The ways in which change is being forced along in a range of guises from public partnerships to private company deals are illustrated with many real and contentious examples. Partnership arrangements, sponsorships, new categories of state independent schools and private sector take-overs of schools and education authorities form the patchwork of how state education is becoming privatized. Will these changes bring more choice and improved standards? How valuable to parents is the information presented in league tables and inspection reports? How will this impact on the future of education? This provocative and critical book moves forward this highly topical debate by providing a direct, in-depth and jargon free commentary on what is happening under the banner of privatization.

Contents:

Forcing educational change in the public sector

Ancient and modern : aims, history and private and public education systems

Privatization, partnerships, democracy and citizenship

Sources of evidence, audit and inspection of education

Local education partnerships, government intervention and participation

Government intervention : a case study

Parents, choice and information

State schools in a changing culture of privatization

Future standards : leadership and partnership, compliance and participation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-243) and index.

ISBN:

0415354749

0415354730

OCLC:

57754094