Private Schools for the Poor: Education Where No One Expects It

Autor/in	Tooley, James
Titel	Private Schools for the Poor: Education Where No One Expects It
Quelle	In: Education Next, 5 (2005) 4, S.22-32 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Private Schools; Economically Disadvantaged; Low Income Groups; Developing Nations; Educational Quality; Academic Achievement; China; Ghana; India; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Private school; Privatschule; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Schulleistung; Indien; Kenia
Abstract	The accepted wisdom is that private schools serve the privileged. Everyone else, especially the poor, requires public school. The poor, so this logic goes, needs government assistance if they are to get a good education, which helps explain why, in the United States, many school choice enthusiasts believe that the only way the poor can get the education they deserve is through vouchers or charter schools, proxies for those "better" private or independent schools, paid for with public funds. If one reflects on these beliefs in a foreign context and observe low-income families in underprivileged and developing countries, one finds these assumptions lacking: the poor have found remarkably innovative ways of helping themselves, educationally, and in some of the most destitute places on Earth have managed to nurture a large and growing industry of private schools for themselves. In this article, the author reports on findings regarding private schools serving the poor in Gansu Province, China; Ga, Ghana; Hyderabad, India; and Kibera, Kenya. The author found large numbers of private schools for low-income families, many of which showed measurable achievement advantage over government schools serving equally disadvantaged students. (Contains 3 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10