Encouraging Educational Innovations Through Competitive Institutional Arrangements

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Innovation, Incentives, Governance, Curriculum, Pedagogy.

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Policymakers increasingly recognize the need to encourage educational innovations as a way to give all children access to quality schooling. Standardized systems have failed underserved and marginalized communities; state-run systems are often oriented to the preferences of bureaucrats and special interests, rather than the needs of students. Thus, theorists point to alternative organizational structures as a means to animate market-style incentives, thereby inducing school managers to be more entrepreneurial in responding to consumer demand for education. This paper surveys educational innovations in a number of nations that have embraced private sector models to aid in educational provision and innovation, including Canada, Chile, England/Wales, India, New Zealand, and the United States. The review suggests that decentralized structural arrangements have been more successful at producing innovations in areas such as governance, contracting, employment and marketing. Classroom-level innovations are more often a product of professional impulses, often within the state sector.

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2011-06-10

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Lubienski, C. (2011). Encouraging Educational Innovations Through Competitive Institutional Arrangements. DHARANA - Bhavan’s International Journal of Business, 5(1), 15–24. Retrieved from http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/dbijb/article/view/18076

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