While marketization has been promoted as a mechanism for improving educational equity and effectiveness, substantial evidence suggests that it may have the opposite effect. We contribute to this debate by examining educational equity and effectiveness in two similar countries that have embraced educational marketization to different degrees. Drawing on data from the Program for International Student Assessment and a causal-comparative design, we show that Australian schooling has more choice and competition, is more socially segregated, has larger school stratification of human and material resources, and has greater inequalities of educational outcomes and overall lower effectiveness than Canadian schooling. Our findings suggest that educational marketization reduces educational equity and effectiveness by increasing school social segregation and stratification of resources.
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Title
The impact of marketization on school segregation and educational equity and effectiveness: Evidence from Australia and Canada
Authors/Creators
Laura B Perry - Murdoch University, School of Education
Ee-Seul Yoon - University of Manitoba
Michael Sciffer - Murdoch University
Christopher Lubienski - Indiana University
Publication Details
International journal of comparative sociology, Online First