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Implicit in much of comparative and international education research is that education is a creature of the nation-state, shaped largely by economic, political, and social forces defined by national boundaries. However, ...
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Because higher education serves both public and private interests, the way it is conceived and financed is contested politically, appearing in different forms in different societies. What is public and private in educati...
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U.S. and European models of delivering secondary education were examined to identify ways of improving Latin American and Caribbean secondary schools and easing Latin American and Caribbean students' transition from scho...
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Examines national experiences with educational vouchers in Chile and Sweden in relation to commonly held assumptions of proponents and opponents. Finds that vouchers did not improve academic achievement; "flight from pub...
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Advanced industrial economies face a work crisis in creating wage employment in a changing job market without greatly increased job inequality. There is a fundamental conflict between a deregulatory labor-market philosop...
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Addresses the question of how to determine the overall effect of the vocational education and training system on efficiency and equity. Suggests criteria to guide allocation of public resources for education and training...
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Explores high technology industries' effects on labor markets, particularly on the division of labor, the organization of work, and the future of education. Discusses implications for demand and the distribution of that ...
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This article is a response to the reviews by Hogan and Ryan (see SO 516 080 and SO 516 081). The authors describe their book and defend its theory and major conclusions. (JDH)...
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Presents a theory of the relationship between education and the economy that attempts to go beyond those theories that posit either that education is autonomous of the production structure or that stress is a functional ...
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The political economy of education treats education as a factor shaped by the power relations between different economic, political, and social groups. Specific topics discussed include the economic value of education, e...
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Educational adequacy can be defined in six ways: as minimum standards of knowledge; internal school efficiency; internal efficiency for equity; and external efficiency in students' social functioning, job markets, or equ...
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The most important educational process takes place outside of formal schooling. A development process which demands participation of the masses increases participation in acquisition of knowledge, particularly in the pos...