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English, Rebecca – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
The move to a market model of schooling has seen a radical restructuring of the ways schooling is "done" in recent times in Western countries. Although there has been a great deal of work to examine the effects of a market model on local school management (LSM), teachers' work and university systems, relatively little has been done to…
Descriptors: School Choice, Foreign Countries, Competition, Free Enterprise System
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Tuck, Bradford; Berman, Matthew; Hill, Alexandra – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Local school districts differ in their ability to pay for teacher quality, and in the amenities they offer as places to live and work. Market clearing with heterogeneous quality yields geographically varying teacher salary levels that confound scarcity with unobserved differences in quality. The paper discusses identification and estimation of a…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Models, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Salaries
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Molnar, Alex – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
This essay reviews the history of school commercialization in the USA and the forms that it has taken over time, with particular attention paid to research measuring the scope and variety of commercialization trends in US public schools. The implications of commercialization activities such as those that promote the consumption of nutritionally…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Public Education, Public Schools, Privatization