Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022
The neoliberal theory argues that private schools provide better-quality education than public schools, thus justifying an increasing involvement of non-state actors in education over the past decades. This paper focuses on primary and secondary education with the aim of informing the neoliberal arg...
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| description | The neoliberal theory argues that private schools provide better-quality education than public schools, thus justifying an increasing involvement of non-state actors in education over the past decades. This paper focuses on primary and secondary education with the aim of informing the neoliberal argument. First, it presents the theoretical debate on the quality of education and private schools’ impact on it. Second, it reviews the empirical evidence on the differential impacts of the private and public education sectors on quality. It then looks at the public-private school debate through a different lens, assessing the two core characteristics of private schools, management autonomy and market orientation. Finally, it proposes that the debate should be a reframed by moving beyond the public-private divide. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee9ca9fbac46471b81180171598c40142024-02-13T13:56:39ZfraLes éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’HommeCahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs1635-35442265-77622023-10-0122335810.4000/cres.6274Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022Barbara DavietThe neoliberal theory argues that private schools provide better-quality education than public schools, thus justifying an increasing involvement of non-state actors in education over the past decades. This paper focuses on primary and secondary education with the aim of informing the neoliberal argument. First, it presents the theoretical debate on the quality of education and private schools’ impact on it. Second, it reviews the empirical evidence on the differential impacts of the private and public education sectors on quality. It then looks at the public-private school debate through a different lens, assessing the two core characteristics of private schools, management autonomy and market orientation. Finally, it proposes that the debate should be a reframed by moving beyond the public-private divide.https://journals.openedition.org/cres/6274education qualityschool choiceequityprimary/secondary educationprivate/public schoolprivatisation |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Daviet Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022 Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs education quality school choice equity primary/secondary education private/public school privatisation |
| title | Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022 |
| title_full | Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022 |
| title_fullStr | Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022 |
| title_short | Do Private Schools Provide a Better Quality of Education? Beyond the Private – Public Divide. A literature review 1981-2022 |
| title_sort | do private schools provide a better quality of education beyond the private public divide a literature review 1981 2022 |
| topic | education quality school choice equity primary/secondary education private/public school privatisation |
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