Private Might Be Public? Vouchers – the Most Radical Form of Privatization in American Education Cover Image

Prywatne może być publiczne? Vouchery – najbardziej radykalna forma prywatyzacji amerykańskiej edukacji
Private Might Be Public? Vouchers – the Most Radical Form of Privatization in American Education

Author(s): Eugenia Potulicka
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Higher Education , Sociology of Education
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: privatization in education; voucher; choice of school

Summary/Abstract: Privatization is the main theme of educational politics in XXI century. The idea of vouchers is connected with the believe, that if parents can use publicly funded vouchers to cover tuition at the school of their choice, schools will be forced to compete for paying customers and hence will have reason to improve. But those who believe that education is a part of the implicit social contract required for an e ective democracy place emphasis on a schoolsystem that is free, publicly funded and guided by democratic decisionsrather than that the market ones. Against vouchers was even Chief Justice Earl Warren, who have said that the opportunity of an education is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-88
  • Page Count: 42
  • Language: Polish