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75.061-11 - Education Markets and Social Inequalities: A Global Perspective

Mon, April 20, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Hyatt, Floor: West Tower - Green Level, Crystal BC

Session Type: Roundtable Session

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This symposium examines how market style mechanisms in education are played out in the US, UK, South Africa, and other countries. Policymakers in many countries around the world have been leveraging privatization and market models such as vouchers and charter schools as education reform initiatives. Proponents of market style education reform view this approach as means to remedy problems inherent to state-run schooling. Yet, research shows that in countries with institutionalized racial divisions, market style in education reform may fail to address persistent educational inequities. Hence market mechanisms in education should be understood within the broader neoliberal policies around the globe that have adversely impacted justice and equity in education, particularly among the marginalized and poor communities.

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