Home Articles Reader Opinion Editorial Book Reviews Discussion Writers Guide About TCRecord
transparent 13
Topics
Discussion
My Experience
Technology - Good for Students AND Teachers
Fiddling with Indicators while using Toxic Tests
Ode to Dewey
Clearly Articulated Proposal--Thank You!
Announcements
Call for Rethinking Higher Education Book Series (Springer)
 

Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America


reviewed by Peter Sipe - March 21, 2006

coverTitle: Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America
Author(s): Laurence Wolff, Juan Carlos Navarro, &Pablo Gonzalez
Publisher: Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas, Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9780977227105, Pages: 251, Year: 2005
Search for book at Amazon.com

“More Latin Americans are being educated, but not well,” The Economist (Cramming, 2002) declared a few years ago. The central question of Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America is how to give all of them a quality education. The answer it offers is that both state and non-state providers must do a better job of working together to reach this goal. Examining their interaction in six countries (Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela), the book outlines a vision of the ideal: “public education with private efficiency, and private education that fulfills social goals” (p. 247). The study, introduced as “the first systematic cross-country review of private education in Latin America” (p. 1) begins with Laurence Wolff’s lucid exposition. He asserts that education is no longer an either/or proposition when it comes to public and private provision. Rather, with one of every four Latin American students, rich or poor,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)


To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:

Sign-in
Email:
Password:
Store a cookie on my computer that will allow me to skip this sign-in in the future.
Send me my password -- I can't remember it
 
Purchase this Article
Purchase Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America
Individual-Resource passes allow you to purchase access to resources one resource at a time. There are no recurring fees.		$12
Become a Member
Online Access
With this membership you receive online access to all of TCRecord's content. The introductory rate of $25 is available for a limited time.		$25
Print and Online Access
With this membership you receive the print journal and free online access to all of TCRecord's content.		$210


Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, Date Published: March 21, 2006
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12349, Date Accessed: 9/17/2019 3:45:40 PM

Purchase Reprint Rights for this article or review
 
Article Tools
Email this article
Print this article
Post a Comment
Related Articles

Related Discussion
 
Post a Comment | Read All

About the Author
  • Peter Sipe
    Brighter Choice Charter School
    E-mail Author
    PETER SIPE teaches 4th grade at Brighter Choice Charter School in Albany, NY. Previously, he was a New York City Teaching Fellow at a middle school in Brooklyn, and also taught at private elementary schools in Seattle. Before becoming a teacher, Peter was a public health consultant, working on development projects in West Africa and Haiti. Prior to that, he served as a protection officer for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Rwanda. Peter has a MST in Elementary Education from Pace University, and a BA and MA in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of “Newjack: Teaching in a Failing Middle School” and “Why Do Fellows Stick Around? An Inquiry into the Retention of New York City Teaching Fellows.”
 
Member Center
Welcome!
Sign-in
Submit My Work
TCR @ Your Library
Book Reviews @ Your Library
In Print
This Month's Issue

Submit
EMAIL

Twitter

RSS
 
Add TC Record RSS feeds to your site
Copyright 2019 Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Copyright Agreement