Choice, competition and segregation: an empirical analysis of a New Zealand secondary school market, 1990‐93

Voucher educacional: nova e discutível panacéia para a América Latina

“…Em estudo recente, Waslander, Thrupp (1997) chegam às seguintes conclusões: 1) em termos gerais o estudo corrobora os argumentos dos críticos da mercantilização da educação; 2) a segregação socioeconômica entre as escolas foi muito mais exacerbada do que o previsto; 3) as escolas com maiores necessidades educacionais estão sendo forçadas a gastar de forma inadequada o tempo e os recursos para sobreviver, prejudicando desse modo seus alunos, que já são desprivilegiados; 4) Os mecanismos de mercado não puderam demonstrar que são capazes de alcançar os propósitos de igualdade de oportunidades e alto padrão educacional.…”

Developing Diversity Through Specialisation in Secondary Education: Comparing approaches in New Zealand and England

“…(Hirsch, 1997) It is important to acknowledge that as we showed in our detailed analysis in section three of this paper there has been some development of specialisation in New Zealand in at least some cases partly prompted by perceived needs of improving market position. However, the scale and scope of specialisation in New Zealand is not likely to produce the horizontal diversity required for the optimum operation of the quasimarket and in its absence there is evidence for increasing vertical diversity among New Zealand schools (Waslander and Thrupp, 1995).…”

Poor performers or just plain poor?: Assumptions in the neo-liberal account of school failure

“…The evidence suggests that New Zealand schools with declining rolls are usually dominated by students from low socio-economic families. For instance, in our recent study of 11 secondary schools comprising a school market in Wellington (Lauder et al, 1994;Waslander & Thrupp, 1995), we found that, whereas the highest socio-economic schools had long waiting lists, the schools with low socio-economic intakes had generally experienced a marked decline in enrolments after the removal of zoning through the loss of their more affluent students. In a similar vein, Ainsworth (1993) survey of Christchurch schools found that 31 of the 32 schools that had declining rolls over 1989-93 had low socio-economic intakes.…”

“…We shall see that this premise is problematic because, as studies in other countries have found (Maudus, 1990;Willms & Echols, 1992) the social mix of schools is likely to be a factor considered by many New Zealand parents when they choose schools for their children (Ainsworth et al, 1993;Fowler, 1993;Lauder et al 1994;Waslander & Thrupp, 1995).…”