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Schooling and the Marketplace

PED3102 IJTamara Brand,Amy Oswick, Ali Rushon & Andrea Stupak

+Overview

Poster

Videos

3 Main Points

Individual Article Analysis

Case Study

ERE/Closing

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Schooling for

Education or Money?

+Major Ideas

“THE POWER OF THE MARKET EDUCATION”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtV-NGhmGM

“INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOL CHOICE”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHzuNUmGLw

1. Education is highly valued in society.

2. Measuring Success?

3. Life is about choice. Truth or a myth?

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Article # 1: “Making the Grade”

Malcolm Gladwell. Making the Grade. [The New Yorker, 15 September 2003].

+“No Child Left Behind”

Assembly Line for Students

Standards ‘Defect-Free Students’

Standardized Testing

How do you measure learning?

‘Feed Me Better Campaign’

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Article # 2: “School Choice? Or is it Privatization?”

Martin Carnoy. School Choice? Or Privatization? [Educational Researcher, 29 (7), 2000, p. 15-20].

+The Educational Market:School Choice or Lack of?

Debate over privatization

Equality in education?

Moral Education?

The power of “VOICE”?

BUREAUCRACY AND EDUCATIONAL MARKET!!! Educational outcome dependent on larger corporate interests.

Example: http://www.healthedtrust.com/

Introducing healthy school meals and Educational Outcomes

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Article # 3: “Public Schools; Making them

Private.”

Milton Friedman. Public Schools: Make Them Private. [Education Economics, 5 (3), 1997, p.341-344].

+Schools as a Free Enterprise

Public system needs radical reconstruction – privatization

Free enterprise = competition

The Voucher – only a transition, yet needs to be universal

Critical Analysis

Who pays?

How it is a Marketplace?

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Article # 4: “Education and Jobs; A Proactive

View”Henry Levin. Education and Jobs: A Proactive View.

[Education and Work, Conferencing Proceedings, vol. 1. Toronto: O.I.S.E., p. 61-69].

+ Key to Success Education & Work

In order to succeed in economic competition depends on ability to raise academic requirements and test scores

Economic challenge has education at its roots

Claims for education policy: 1. Jobs will require considerably more education

than those in the mid 80s 2. Increase in test scores will have powerful impact

in productivity

+Case Study, Electronic

Research Essay, and Closing