The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization analyses global trends related to two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy.Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this Research Handbook expands on new conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of privatization and marketization. Chapters cover key themes including: new developments in the field such as tax credit scholarship and low fee private schools; the enactment and impact of privatization and marketization; and resistance movements and regulatory responses. Offering international insights from education, sociology, geography and political science, the authors conduct an in-depth examination of innovative frameworks for current and future studies, building upon existing knowledge and continuing an important dialogue in this evolving area of research.This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of sociology, education studies, political science, and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers within international organisations, research foundations, think tanks, and civil society organisations will also find this Research Handbook beneficial.

The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization analyses global trends related to two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy.Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this Research Handbook expands on new conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of privatization and marketization. Chapters cover key themes including: new developments in the field such as tax credit scholarship and low fee private schools; the enactment and impact of privatization and marketization; and resistance movements and regulatory responses. Offering international insights from education, sociology, geography and political science, the authors conduct an in-depth examination of innovative frameworks for current and future studies, building upon existing knowledge and continuing an important dialogue in this evolving area of research.This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of sociology, education studies, political science, and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers within international organisations, research foundations, think tanks, and civil society organisations will also find this Research Handbook beneficial.

An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform  In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Summarizing the key challenges of various transfer pathways, Schudde and Jabbar show how the current decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often confusing process undermines equity and access in higher education. They illustrate how transfer success is closely tied to how educational institutions disseminate information about credit portability, especially for vertical transfer between community colleges and destination universities, in which prospective transfer students often confront hidden curricula and unfounded biases about their academic preparedness.  This deeply considered work is grounded in hundreds of interviews of students and personnel, data from a six-year longitudinal study in Texas, and a synthesis of five decades of research on college transfer. Presenting a field perspective, Schudde and Jabbar use strategic action fields, a framework that considers how rules and norms are maintained in an existing power structure, to examine the political–ecological contexts in which transfer-intending students and transfer-related college personnel interact within and across organizations. They frame transfer policy as a complex public higher education issue rather than an isolated community college problem.  Schudde and Jabbar call for transfer reform and offer insight into how transfer outcomes could be improved through better transparency, centralized policy, and even government intervention.

An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform

The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization analyses global trends related to two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy.Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this Research Handbook expands on new conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of privatization and marketization. Chapters cover key themes including: new developments in the field such as tax credit scholarship and low fee private schools; the enactment and impact of privatization and marketization; and resistance movements and regulatory responses. Offering international insights from education, sociology, geography and political science, the authors conduct an in-depth examination of innovative frameworks for current and future studies, building upon existing knowledge and continuing an important dialogue in this evolving area of research.This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of sociology, education studies, political science, and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers within international organisations, research foundations, think tanks, and civil society organisations will also find this Research Handbook beneficial.

The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization analyses global trends related to two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy.Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this Research Handbook expands on new conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of privatization and marketization. Chapters cover key themes including: new developments in the field such as tax credit scholarship and low fee private schools; the enactment and impact of privatization and marketization; and resistance movements and regulatory responses. Offering international insights from education, sociology, geography and political science, the authors conduct an in-depth examination of innovative frameworks for current and future studies, building upon existing knowledge and continuing an important dialogue in this evolving area of research.This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of sociology, education studies, political science, and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers within international organisations, research foundations, think tanks, and civil society organisations will also find this Research Handbook beneficial.

An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform  In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Summarizing the key challenges of various transfer pathways, Schudde and Jabbar show how the current decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often confusing process undermines equity and access in higher education. They illustrate how transfer success is closely tied to how educational institutions disseminate information about credit portability, especially for vertical transfer between community colleges and destination universities, in which prospective transfer students often confront hidden curricula and unfounded biases about their academic preparedness.  This deeply considered work is grounded in hundreds of interviews of students and personnel, data from a six-year longitudinal study in Texas, and a synthesis of five decades of research on college transfer. Presenting a field perspective, Schudde and Jabbar use strategic action fields, a framework that considers how rules and norms are maintained in an existing power structure, to examine the political–ecological contexts in which transfer-intending students and transfer-related college personnel interact within and across organizations. They frame transfer policy as a complex public higher education issue rather than an isolated community college problem.  Schudde and Jabbar call for transfer reform and offer insight into how transfer outcomes could be improved through better transparency, centralized policy, and even government intervention.

An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform