... Privatization of services can include management reforms - incremental efforts to make govern... more ... Privatization of services can include management reforms - incremental efforts to make government agencies operate in a more business-like and market-oriented manner. Americans have recently been exposed to this view ...
The Politics of Privatization: A Comparative Perspective JEFFREY R. HENIG, CHRIS HAMNETT and HARV... more The Politics of Privatization: A Comparative Perspective JEFFREY R. HENIG, CHRIS HAMNETT and HARVEY B. FEIGENBAUM Privatization, the deliberate effort by governments to increase reliance on market mechanisms as a means of pursuing public goals, has emerged ...
Abstract:" Between Public and Private&am... more Abstract:" Between Public and Private" examines an innovative approach to school district management that has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which" a central office oversees a portfolio of schools offering diverse organizational and curricular themes, including traditional public schools, private organizations, and charter schools." This volume examines crucial issues related to portfolio management, gauges both the promise and potential pitfalls of the model, ...
ABSTRACT: Attention to the role of choice in American schools has shifted from its effect on the ... more ABSTRACT: Attention to the role of choice in American schools has shifted from its effect on the racial composition of the student body to its potential effect on the quality of education provided to students. This article focuses on the adoption and implementation of a series of elementary level magnet schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, as a means for identifying some of the political and organizational dynamics likely to accompany an expanded reliance on prochoice mechanisms. Implementation of choice options in public school systems, it is concluded, will entail more difficult trade offs, higher levels of conflict, and a more affirmative role for the public sector than is commonly presumed.
Public presentations of research about charter schools have been politicized, polarized, and pers... more Public presentations of research about charter schools have been politicized, polarized, and personalized, fueling cynicism about whether research can generate objective knowledge and promote the collective good. This article draws two distinctions: between politics as a corrupting force and politics as a healthy and necessary component of democratic decision making, and between politicization that permeates the research itself and politicization of the ways in which research is communicated to the policy world. Using charter school research as a window into broader issues relating to democracy and societal learning, it identifies factors behind politicization, some of which are particular to the way that issue has evolved, some of which have to do with exacerbating factors in the broader political environment. Based on this analysis, it outlines what steps might be taken to strengthen institutions and practices that do not so much seek to buffer research from politics as to improve the ways in which research is used in a political world.
Various accounts have noted a growing visibility and influence of presidents, governors, and mayo... more Various accounts have noted a growing visibility and influence of presidents, governors, and mayors in the shaping of educational policy. Typically, explanations for this are discrete and situational: specific to particular levels of government, particular jurisdictions, particular visionary leaders, and transitory external events. This article reviews the historical manifestations of growing executive involvement in education throughout the federal system and introduces four rivals to the situational perspective. The emergence of the so-called new educational executives, it concludes, grows out of structural shifts in the institutional landscape and may be best understood as the more visible front edge of a broader reabsorption of education politics into the arena of general-purpose governance.
... Privatization of services can include management reforms - incremental efforts to make govern... more ... Privatization of services can include management reforms - incremental efforts to make government agencies operate in a more business-like and market-oriented manner. Americans have recently been exposed to this view ...
The Politics of Privatization: A Comparative Perspective JEFFREY R. HENIG, CHRIS HAMNETT and HARV... more The Politics of Privatization: A Comparative Perspective JEFFREY R. HENIG, CHRIS HAMNETT and HARVEY B. FEIGENBAUM Privatization, the deliberate effort by governments to increase reliance on market mechanisms as a means of pursuing public goals, has emerged ...
Abstract:" Between Public and Private&am... more Abstract:" Between Public and Private" examines an innovative approach to school district management that has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which" a central office oversees a portfolio of schools offering diverse organizational and curricular themes, including traditional public schools, private organizations, and charter schools." This volume examines crucial issues related to portfolio management, gauges both the promise and potential pitfalls of the model, ...
ABSTRACT: Attention to the role of choice in American schools has shifted from its effect on the ... more ABSTRACT: Attention to the role of choice in American schools has shifted from its effect on the racial composition of the student body to its potential effect on the quality of education provided to students. This article focuses on the adoption and implementation of a series of elementary level magnet schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, as a means for identifying some of the political and organizational dynamics likely to accompany an expanded reliance on prochoice mechanisms. Implementation of choice options in public school systems, it is concluded, will entail more difficult trade offs, higher levels of conflict, and a more affirmative role for the public sector than is commonly presumed.
Public presentations of research about charter schools have been politicized, polarized, and pers... more Public presentations of research about charter schools have been politicized, polarized, and personalized, fueling cynicism about whether research can generate objective knowledge and promote the collective good. This article draws two distinctions: between politics as a corrupting force and politics as a healthy and necessary component of democratic decision making, and between politicization that permeates the research itself and politicization of the ways in which research is communicated to the policy world. Using charter school research as a window into broader issues relating to democracy and societal learning, it identifies factors behind politicization, some of which are particular to the way that issue has evolved, some of which have to do with exacerbating factors in the broader political environment. Based on this analysis, it outlines what steps might be taken to strengthen institutions and practices that do not so much seek to buffer research from politics as to improve the ways in which research is used in a political world.
Various accounts have noted a growing visibility and influence of presidents, governors, and mayo... more Various accounts have noted a growing visibility and influence of presidents, governors, and mayors in the shaping of educational policy. Typically, explanations for this are discrete and situational: specific to particular levels of government, particular jurisdictions, particular visionary leaders, and transitory external events. This article reviews the historical manifestations of growing executive involvement in education throughout the federal system and introduces four rivals to the situational perspective. The emergence of the so-called new educational executives, it concludes, grows out of structural shifts in the institutional landscape and may be best understood as the more visible front edge of a broader reabsorption of education politics into the arena of general-purpose governance.
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