Marketized Education: How Regulatory Failure Undermined the Swedish School System

Autor/in	Wennström, Johan
Titel	Marketized Education: How Regulatory Failure Undermined the Swedish School System
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 35 (2020) 5, S.665-691 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wennström, Johan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2019.1608472
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; School Choice; Competition; Educational Vouchers; Private Schools; Proprietary Schools; Educational History; Grade Inflation; Grades (Scholastic); Testing; Educational Quality; Standards; Educational Change; Public Education; Achievement Tests; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 4; Grade 8; Academic Achievement; Politics of Education; Sweden; United States; European Union; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Wettkampf; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Private school; Privatschule; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Notenspiegel; Testdurchführung; Testen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Standard; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Erziehung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Schulleistung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Schweden; USA
Abstract	In a radical school choice reform in 1992, Sweden's education system was opened to private competition from independent for-profit and non-profit schools funded by vouchers. Competition was expected to produce higher-quality education at lower cost, in both independent and public schools. This two-pronged study first examines to what extent the consequences of this reform deviate from the predicted results. It demonstrates increasing discrepancies between absolute test results and grades, suggesting grade inflation. Secondly, the study investigates whether the school choice reform was institutionally secured against school competition based on phenomena that are unrelated with educational quality, such as grading. It reveals that the architects of the school choice reform overemphasized the potential positive implications of market reforms and, therefore, did not deem it necessary to establish appropriate rules and institutions for school competition. Instead, grading and curriculum reforms had unintended consequences such as grade inflation and similar forms of school competition in dimensions other than school quality. The analysis of how the objective of raising the quality in Sweden's schools through competition and choice was inadvertently undermined contains practical lessons for policymakers with regard to the use of privatization and co-production both in schools and in other fields. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01