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Salzberger, Thomas – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Learning is a lifelong process. It is therefore worthwhile looking at instances where learning takes place outside educational institutions and see how educational principles can be applied there. In a market economy companies have to quest for profit to ensure their long-term survival. In the end, their educational goals have to serve themselves.…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Educational Principles, Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Mdee, Anna; Emmott, Richard – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2008
Social enterprise and fair trade are seen increasingly as redefining capitalist relationships through revaluing social impact and ownership in enterprise activities. One of the dilemmas in such activities is the tension between operating a viable and commercially-sustainable enterprise and maximising social and developmental impacts. This article…
Descriptors: Travel, Tourism, Volunteers, Ownership
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1995
A draft of a book, "School Choice: The Cultural Logic of Families, the Political Rationality of Institutions," received a great deal of media attention. The book contains research from nine different studies of school choice and includes an introduction and conclusion by Harvard professors Richard Elmore, Gary Orfield, and Bruce Fuller. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1996
In Pioneer Institute's November 1995 "Dialogue," nine school-choice advocates critiqued a draft manuscript of "Who Chooses, Who Loses? Culture, Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice," edited by Harvard professors Richard Elmore, Gary Orfield, and Bruce Fuller. This publication contains the response of Professor Fuller to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education
Losh, Charles – 1994
The Skills Standards Projects have provided further emphasis on the need for benchmarking U.S. vocational-technical education (VTE) against international competition. Benchmarking is an ongoing systematic process designed to identify, as quantitatively as possible, those practices that produce world class performance. Metrics are those things that…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Competency Based Education, Competition, Educational Quality