Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization

by Burch; Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780415955669
• ISBN10: 0415955661
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented expansion in the influence of the private sector in all aspects of public education. Across the United States, test publishers, software companies, virtual charter school operators, and other industries are rapidly moving to take advantage of the significant revenues made available by public education funds. As these private companies are garnering billions of dollars in public revenues they have assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools-but, while drawing on public money and on the authority of public policy, the work of the new privatization has been kept relatively hidden from view.

Author Biography

Patricia Burch is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction to Hidden Markets	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Trends and Origins	p. 1
Inside the Market	p. 21
Privatization and Its Intermediaries	p. 39
Shadow Privatization: Local Experiences with Supplemental Education Services	p. 55
Invisible Influences: For-Profit Firms and Virtual Charter Schools	p. 77
In the Interstices: Benchmark Assessments, District Contracts, and NCLB	p. 99
Working for Transparency	p. 119
Research Design and Methodology	p. 137
New Privatization Trends and Questions Conjoined	p. 149
Characteristic Companies	p. 151
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 177
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