Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education: Global Change and National Challenge

Front Matter....Pages I-VI
Private Schooling and School Choice as Global Phenomena: An Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
A Bicycle Built for Three. Private School Governance and Politics in the United States....Pages 9-29
A Country on Its Way to Full Privatisation? Private Schools and School Choice in England....Pages 31-47
A Most Poisonous Debate: Legitimizing Support for Australian Private Schools....Pages 49-66
Private Schools in Sweden: Policy Development, Inequalities and Emerging Issues....Pages 67-79
Long Tradition, Moderate Distribution and Growing Importance: Private Schools in Germany as ‘Change Agents’ of School Choice....Pages 81-97
Class Isolation: Examining Private Schools in Chile....Pages 99-114
Private Schools in the People’s Republic of China: Development, Modalities and Contradictions....Pages 115-131
Privatisation of Compulsory Education in Ghana: Examining the Developments so Far....Pages 133-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
School Choice and the Urban Neighbourhood: Segregation Processes in the German Primary Sector with Special Reference to Private Schools....Pages 153-175
School Choice in German Primary Schools....Pages 177-199
Public and Private School Choice in the German Primary Education Sector: An Empirical Analysis of Parental Reasons....Pages 201-221
Taking Advantage of Catastrophes: Education Privatization Reforms in Contexts of Emergency....Pages 223-244
A Comparative Panorama of Privatisation and School Choice in Education: Concluding Remarks....Pages 245-250