Beech, Jason, and Ignacio Barrenechea. 2011. "Pro-market educational governance: is Argentina a black swan?." Critical Studies in Education 52, no. 3: 279-293.
- Arguemnt of the article: Argentina has not done many pro-market reforms in teh education sector due to the high value Argentine society places on public education (279)
- Some others suggest tha tneoliberalism promotes segregation and social inequalitie (280, citing Puiggros 2010, Zajda 2006)
- defines neoliberalsim as pro-market forms of governance"
- decentralization is't necessarily pro-market
- the education system in Argentina ha always been centralized (281)
- it was a way to promote homogeneity and national identity
- public schoolswere also important to give middle class access to political and economic power
- public school has a strong history in Argentina, nad has been defined as state-run school as well
- in CABA close to 50% of studetns are in private schools (282)
- some private schoosl receive direct subsidies (19% of federal education budget in 2001 went tstriaght to prvate schools without any public oversight as to what it would be spent on , Gvirzt and Beech 2007)
- in 2010 the state subsidized approx. 70% of private schools, Wolff de Moura and Castro 2002)
- despite lots of rhetoric about the 1993 education reform as being neoliberal, few of the reforms were pro-market, and those that were were either limited or not implemented at all (285-287)
- provincialization changed the locus of power, but provinces still set up basicallly hierarchical, centralized systems (286)
- autonomy plans essnetially faile,d at best just created more bureaucracy (286)
- schools do not manage any funds, salaries and everything are paid idrectly by the state (286)
- "the education system has been the exception to the pro-market logic that dominated the overall ecnomic and social policies of the 1990s" (287)
- but yet they are still suffering the segregation and achievement gap between rich and ppor (288)
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