Private Education: Studies in Choice and Public Policy

by Daniel C. Levy (Editor)

Overview

This book focuses on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context. The contributors emphasize the relationship between private choices and public policy as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools, colleges, and universities. Their essays examine the kinds of choices offered by each sector, as well as the effects of present and proposed public policies on the intersectoral division of labor. Written from neither a pro-private nor a pro-public point of view, the contributors point to the ways in which they believe one sector or the other may be preferable for certain goals or groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195037104
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/27/1986
Series:	Yale Studies on Non-Profit Organizations
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

State University of New York at Albany

Table of Contents

	Contributors	xv
	Private Choice and Public Policy in Nonprofit Education	3
I.	Overviews of Private School Choice and Public Policy
1.	Public Policy Toward Private Schools: A Focus on Parental Choice	33
2.	Federal Policies for Private Schools	57
3.	Choice and Private Schools: Dynamics of Supply and Demand	82
II.	Intersectoral Comparisons
4.	Public Subsidies for Private and Public Education: The Dutch Case	113
5.	Comparisons of Private and Public Schools: The Critical Role of Regulations	138
6.	Comparisons of Private and Public Schools: What Can We Learn?	153
7.	"Private" and "Public": Analysis Amid Ambiguity in Higher Education	170
III.	Private Choice and Financial Policy in Higher Education
8.	Alternative Private-Public Blends in Higher-Education Finance: International Patterns	195
9.	Finance and Function: Voluntary Support and Diversity in American Private Higher Education	214
10.	Cross-Subsidization in Higher Education: Does it Pervert Private Choice and Public Policy?	237
	Select Bibliography	259
	Index	268

Editorial Reviews

"The papers collected in this volume are among the most insightful and theoretically sophisticated research ever done on private education."—Teachers College Record

"The reader [of this book] learns a good deal about private nonprofit education institutions in the United States and gains an awareness of some of the difficulties in increasing public support and thereby the size of the nonprofit private sector."—Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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