Preface; I School Choice: Worldwide Perspectives; 1 Perspectives in Public-Private Partnerships in Education; 2 Public-Private Partnerships and Student Achievement: A Cross-Country Analysis; 3 Mobilizing the Private Sector in the United States: A Theoretical Overview; 4 The Practice of Public-Private Partnerships; II Traditional Forms of School Choice; 5 Public-Private Schools in Rural India; 6 School-Sector Effects on Student Achievement in India; III Public Funding of Privately Managed Schools; 7 School Vouchers in Colombia; 8 The Public-Private School Controversy in Chile
9 The Concession Schools of Bogota, Colombia 10 Public and Private Schooling Initiatives in England; IV Conclusions; 11 Education Contracting: Scope of Future Research; Contributors; Index
Summary
This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India
