TY - JOUR
T1 - Public schools in marketized environments
T2 - Shifting incentives and unintended consequences of competition-based educational reforms
AU - Lubienski, Christopher
PY - 2005/8
Y1 - 2005/8
N2 - By opening the system to competition, popular school choice reforms seek to remake public education into a more consumer-oriented endeavor. While the underlying theory holds that competitive pressures will induce change and improvement in educational processes, research indicates that organizations often respond instead by developing promotional strategies to succeed in the marketplace. This analysis reviews evidence of organizational behavior in education in reconsidering theories of school responses to competition. Due to unique quasi-public good aspects of schooling, it appears that marketlike incentives are corrupted when applied to education, "short-circuiting" the incentives that reformers had intended to drive school improvement.
AB - By opening the system to competition, popular school choice reforms seek to remake public education into a more consumer-oriented endeavor. While the underlying theory holds that competitive pressures will induce change and improvement in educational processes, research indicates that organizations often respond instead by developing promotional strategies to succeed in the marketplace. This analysis reviews evidence of organizational behavior in education in reconsidering theories of school responses to competition. Due to unique quasi-public good aspects of schooling, it appears that marketlike incentives are corrupted when applied to education, "short-circuiting" the incentives that reformers had intended to drive school improvement.
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U2 - 10.1086/431180
DO - 10.1086/431180
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:26444611493
SN - 0195-6744
VL - 111
SP - 464
EP - 486
JO - American Journal of Education
JF - American Journal of Education
IS - 4
ER -