Projects

Education Privatization | Right to Education | Price of Opportunity

Project: Education Privatization

Our Kids, Our Future: Privatization and Public Investment in Education

Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education

Privatization and Public Investment

Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education

Infographics

Balancing Priorities: A Primer on Education Privatization | Download

Oakland's Public School System (2018) | Download

Privatization and Public Investment in Education | Download

New Orleans' Charter School System (2016) | Download

Briefs

Privatization or Public Investment in Education?
Published by Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)

This brief presents key findings and policy recommendations from Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes...

Policymakers worldwide are trying to figure how best to organize, govern, and support their education systems. They must manage multiple goals, such as workforce development, nurturing knowledgeable citizens, and ensuring educational opportunity. Some countries approach these issues with a public investment in teacher professionalization and a focus on equity of student outcomes, while others use a market-based, privatization approach to education.

DOWNLOAD | Privatization or Public Investment in Education?

Project: Right to Education

Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the Role of Private Actors in Education
Adamson, F., Aubry, S., de Koning, M., Dorsi, D. (2021). Edward Elgar Publishing. Open Access link.

This volume analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. Multidisciplinary in approach, both legal and education scholars address key issues on the right to education, including parental rights in education, the impact of school choice, and evidence about inequities arising from private involvement in education at the global level.

Focusing on East African and Francophone countries as well as the global level, chapters explore the role and impact of private actors and privatization in education. The book concludes by calling for the rights outlined in the Abidjan Principles not to remain locked in text, but for states to take responsibility and be held to account for delivering them, as promised in international human rights treaties.

Project: Price of Opportunity

Welner, K., Adamson, F. & Saldana, C. (April 2021). The Price of Opportunity. Presentation upcoming at the Annual 2021 American Education Research Association Conference (Virtual).