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Carol A. Mullen; Tara C. Bartlett – Education Inquiry, 2024
Controversy is intensifying with the rapid spread of charter schools and their domination of the education reform agenda. As charter enrolment increases in the USA, inequities in education worsen. This article contributes to the debate on contemporary education policy by critically examining charter issues from the US literature and stakeholder…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Lambert, Matthew T. – Harvard Education Press, 2014
"Public education is in crisis--and it has been for some time. The problem is, no one can agree on the problem, and when there is no agreement on the problem, developing solutions is nearly impossible." Thus writes Matthew T. Lambert in this study of present-day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Institutional Autonomy
Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2012
The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) at Hiroshima University, through special funding by the Ministry of Education and Science in 2008, has been implementing a research project on the reform of higher education in the knowledge-based society of the 21st century. Research into the design of the future higher education system,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Governance, Postsecondary Education
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Blake, Peter – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Peter Blake reports on new legislations and reforms in Virginia that provide colleges and universities more operational and administrative autonomy in return for their commitment to public goals for higher education. He traces the history and context of privatization in Virgina from 1988. During this time, the legislatively mandated Virginia…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, State Legislation, Educational Change, Higher Education