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Drawing on theoretical models, case studies, and comparative analyses of other sectors and countries, the authors argue that governance reforms are likely to have little impact on what actually happens in schools, and they tell why decentralized structural arrangements alone are unlikely to establish conditions necessary for general improvement in educational practice.
Sponsored by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education
Drawing on theoretical models, case studies, and comparative analyses of oth...
A study of higher education expansion and quality in the world's four largest developing economies-Brazil, Russia, India, and China-that asks how each state actively develops its higher education system, including achieving mass expansion and aiming for greater -quality,- in the context of the many forces, global and local, that impinge on its society, including on its existing higher education institutions.
A study of higher education expansion and quality in the world's four largest developing economies-Brazil, Russia, India, and China-that asks how each...
Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly viewed as in transition to socialism. Current political patterns and leadership in these countries have emerged in the context of predominantly agricultural, industrially underdeveloped economies. Each state has played a major role in social transformation, relying on the educational system to train, educate, and socialize its future citizens....
Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occ...
Martin Carnoy clarifies the important contemporary debate on the social role of an increasingly complex State. He analyzes the most recent recasting of Marxist political theories in continental Europe, the Third World, and the United States; sets the new theories in a context of past thinking about the State; and argues for the existence of a major shift in Marxist views.
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton...
Martin Carnoy clarifies the important contemporary debate on the social role of an increasingly complex State. He analyzes the most recent recastin...
This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy.
This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy...
Martin Carnoy clarifies the important contemporary debate on the social role of an increasingly complex State. He analyzes the most recent recasting of Marxist political theories in continental Europe, the Third World, and the United States; sets the new theories in a context of past thinking about the State; and argues for the existence of a major shift in Marxist views.
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton...
Martin Carnoy clarifies the important contemporary debate on the social role of an increasingly complex State. He analyzes the most recent recastin...
Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly viewed as in transition to socialism. Current political patterns and leadership in these countries have emerged in the context of predominantly agricultural, industrially underdeveloped economies. Each state has played a major role in social transformation, relying on the educational system to train, educate, and socialize its future citizens....
Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occ...
This book is a discussion of and an argument for alternatives to the present structure of production in the United States--alternatives that would change the control of capital and how it is used. First published 1980, Carnoy and Shearer discuss the economic problems facing the 1980s and argue for a strategy to transform capital from corporations to the public. A book that remains relevant in today's political economic climate, this title is ideal for students of economics and politics, as well as general readers interested in past and present economic problems and potential...
This book is a discussion of and an argument for alternatives to the present structure of production in the United States--alternatives that would ...
