Privatizing Education

Privatizing Education brings together essays by a range of contributors, who examine how educators, reformers, investors and political actors are pushing schooling out of state hands and into private ones. The book asks whether the school marketplace can really deliver choice, efficiency, equity and social cohesion.

The chapters look at the routes by which this is happening: tax credits for tuition, voucher schemes, and firms run for profit that manage schools. The volume began as a conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, the event that also set up a body devoted to studying privatisation in education.

The book will interest education policy researchers, students of the economics of schooling, and anyone following the debate over public and private provision of schools.

Edition note: first edition from Westview Press in 2001, 384 pages, ISBN-13 9780813366401.