National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education

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T‌he ‌National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education provides nonpartisan documentation and analysis of privatization in education. We conduct research, host conferences, and post working papers. Our topics range from preschool to tertiary education, both at home and abroad.

Latest from NCSPE

Working Paper: Charter Schools and Special Education

Katharine Parham explores the dual institutions of charter schools and special education, and the unique issues that arise when an institution whose organizational structure is grounded in autonomy is forced to comply, by law, with significant regulatory demands.

Working Paper: Examining Variation within the Charter School Sector

Using propensity score matching and virtual control records in examining test scores in English Language Arts (ELA) and math for 2009-10 through 2011-12 in California, Charisse Gulosino and Jonah Liebert find that urban charter schools boost results relative to their matched comparison groups of traditional public schools while suburban and rural charter schools post similar results in ELA and inferior results in math relative to their matched comparison groups of traditional public schools.

Working Paper: School Autonomy in Denver

Philip Gigliotti analyzes Innovation Schools in Denver from its inception in 2009 through 2014. Gigliotti focuses on student scores on annual state tests in reading, math, and writing to measure the effectiveness of greater managerial authority. He finds that while Innovation Schools on average brought about impressive results by the second year of implementation, these results soon after declined substantially.

Working Paper: How Chile Modified Friedman

Adrián Zancajo explores the striking reversal of voucher policy in Chile in 2014. Through examination of 30 key policy documents and interviews with 37 stakeholders involved in this transformation, Zancajo reveals a telling story about the forces in Chile for and against modification of the country’s market-based system of schooling.

Working Paper: Educational Privatization in China: A Case Study

Yiwen Wang focuses on Mei Jia International School, a private boarding school for students in grades 7 to 9 in Guiyang, capital of the inland province of Guizhou and home to 4.8 million people. Through a series of interviews with Mei Jia’s principal, teachers, and students, Wang addresses the school’s relationship with the government as well as its method of management, its finances, student enrollment, and teacher recruitment.

Working Paper: Charter Schools and Race in Kansas City

In exploring the enrollment data of 17 new charter schools that opened from 2011 to 2015 in Kansas City, the authors find that a disproportionate number of white students transferred into new charter schools, that white students appeared to be transferring into new charter schools with more white students, and, perhaps most significantly, that much of this racial sorting was associated with two new charter schools.

Working Paper: School Autonomy and Its Impact

In analyzing data from principal surveys and case studies at a broad sample of schools in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2014, Ayesha K. Hashim, Susan C. Bush-Mecenas, and Katharine O. Strunk find wide variation in the implementation of autonomy and close association between faithful implementation and better instruction.

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Books from NCSPE

Education and the Commercial Mindset

By Samuel E. Abrams
(Harvard University Press, 2016, 417 pages)

An examination of how market forces have shaped public education.

Edited by Katrina E. Bulkley, Jeffrey R. Henig, and Henry M. Levin
(Harvard Education Press, 2010, 402 pages)

A collection of 12 perspectives on the new portfolio model of urban school governance.

By Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin
(Routledge, 2005, 225 pages)

An analysis of the impact of educational privatization on families, schools, and communities.

Edited by Janelle T. Scott

(Teachers College Press, 2005, 192 pages)

A collection of eight perspectives on school choice and its impact on student diversity.

Edited by Henry M. Levin
(Westview Press, 2001, 384 pages)

A collection of 14 essays covering a wide range of topics, from tuition tax credits and vouchers to charter schools.

Contact Us

Director: Samuel E. Abrams

Email: sa307@tc.columbia.edu

Phone: 212-678-8117

Fax: 212-678-3474

Mailing Address: Box 181 * Teachers College, Columbia University * 525 West 120th Street * New York, NY 10027