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The Privatization of Schooling
A Powerful Way to Change Schools and Enhance Learning



June 1996 | 208 pages | Corwin
Focusing on an important emerging issue in United States' education - school reform via privatization - this book is designed to meet three major goals: to examine the foundations and the context of the privatization movement; to review the evidence on privatization in areas other than schooling; and to shape decisions about privatization in the school-reform arena.
 
Setting the Stage
 
Defining Privatization
 
Historical Context of Privatization
 
Pressures for Change
 
Intellectual Underpinnings and Expected Benefits
 
Forces Fueling Privatization in Education

Joseph F. Murphy

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education. In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as... More About Author

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