Reports that alternative and distance providers claim just 2% of the postsecondary market today, but a combination of pent-up demand, changes in the tax law, and today's E-commerce boom could quickly balloon that market share by a factor of ten, at which point larger transformations might take place. (PGS)

Summarizes a study examining the dynamics of a set of (British) education markets over a 39-month period. Secondary schools in three adjacent local education authorities served as laboratories for researching choice and competition. The market's disciplinary effects are clear. The education market reinforces opportunity advantages of middle-class…

Schools hoping to become communities must be sensitive to subcommunities serving as building blocks for the supracommunity. Cooperation/competition is a system for increasing effective subcommunities in schools and simultaneously increasing these groups' support for school goals (assisting the school's academic program). This article explains the…

This article argues for allowing disabled athletes to participate in interscholastic events in the most inclusive setting possible. A continuum of opportunities is described with benefits to all participants, disabled or able-bodied. Suggestions for coaches are offered including dealing with the issue of competition. An insert includes excerpts…

Discusses issues and trends in business education, including: globalization, partly mediated through the Internet; the rise of corporate and virtual universities; heightened competition among schools; finding and nurturing appropriate staff; achieving critical mass; serving the entire economy; working with relevant partners inside and outside the…

Addresses different perspectives on using competitions for ratings, including views from various music educators. Discusses other issues, such as opportunities for incorporating the music standards in classroom teaching, related to competition. Includes sidebars addressing pros and cons of competitions in music education, helping students prepare…

Describes the trends in higher education predicted and discussed at a staff retreat of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). Trends include an evolving role for business officers, increasing enrollment, competition, and e-learning. (EV)

Examines fears of small private colleges that major fund raising campaigns of large public universities will hamper their own fund raising efforts. Gives the example of Pennsylvania State University and the 86 small, private colleges also in Pennsylvania. Shows that trends in both private and corporate giving increasingly favor public research…

Selective colleges and universities are trying to lure top students by offering more aid to low- and middle-income families. This "need-conscious" policy has been practiced at some institutions for years. The policy is affecting some schools' enrollment patterns. Parents appear to be learning that negotiation is a key factor in obtaining the…

Explores the future of higher education in the United States and the role of competitive forces by examining four central areas of contest and contradiction: market models, nonprofit form, convergence of nonprofit and for-profit institutional behavior, and the role of public colleges and universities as political institutions. (EV)

The discourses of neoliberalism and global market competition dominate social and economic agendas at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In particular, global competition and new managerialism have underpinned the recent emphases on accountability and administrative efficiency, and there has been a permeation of contemporary business…

This paper presents a model of educational production that tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent framework, students choose their learning effort to maximize their net benefits, while the government chooses educational spending to maximize its net…

This article describes connections between chess and mathematics, including examples of activities that connect chess with set theory, patterns, algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and Pascal's triangle. The author observes that competitive games play a dual purpose in advancing the work of mathematics educators: to reinforce a specific skill and to…

Data from a national study suggest that continuing education programs demonstrate considerable entrepreneurial activity.

Inherent to all social exchange relations are elements of both cooperation and competition. We develop and test a theoretical model which proposes that the relative salience of the competitive, conflictual elements of exchange mediate and explain the negative effects of negotiated exchange, as compared with reciprocal exchange, on actors'…