This Research Handbook analyses global trends within education privatization and marketization, two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy. An international array of expert contributors present illuminating case studies from across Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

Contents 1 Education privatization and marketization: new spaces and research directions 1 A�d�r�i�án� �Z�a�n�c�a�j�o�,� �C�l�a�r�a� �F�o�n�t�d�e�v�i�l�a�,� �A�n�t�o�n�i� �V�e�r�g�e�r� �a�n�d� �H�u�r�i�y�a� �J�a�b�b�a�r� � PART I EDUCATION PRIVATIZATION AND MARKETIZATION: REVISITING CONCEPTUAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 2 Understanding privatization and marketization in education 26 C�h�r�i�s�t�o�p�h�e�r� �L�u�b�i�e�n�s�k�i� �a�n�d� �J�o�e�l� �M�a�l�i�n� � 3 The politics of post-war privatization in wealthy democracies 41 J�a�n�e� �G�i�n�g�r�i�c�h� � 4 How education privatization and marketization take ‘place’: geographical theories and methods 58 J�i�n�a� �K�i�m�,� �J�e�r�e�m�y� �S�i�n�g�e�r� �a�n�d� �C�h�r�i�s�t�o�p�h�e�r� �L�u�b�i�e�n�s�k�i� � 5 Competition in education markets: impacts, perceptions, and policy contexts 72 S�a�r�a�h� �A�.� �C�o�r�d�e�s� � 6 School choice and the (re)production of segregation in the education marketplace: a mechanism-based approach 89 X�a�v�i�e�r� �B�o�n�a�l� � 7 Platformed privatization: data, technology, and the changing infrastructure of educational governance 108 T�.� �P�h�i�l�i�p� �N�i�c�h�o�l�s� �a�n�d� �A�l�e�x�a�n�d�r�a� �T�h�r�a�l�l� � PART II THE EMERGENCE AND CHANGE OF EDUCATION MARKETS: NEW AND OVERLOOKED POLICY DEVELOPMENTS 8 Evolving tax credit scholarship and education savings account policies in the United States: the path to universal private school choice programs 123 L�u�i�s� �A�.� �H�u�e�r�t�a�,� �S�t�e�v�e�n� �J�.� �K�o�u�t�s�a�v�l�i�s� �a�n�d� �T�r�e�v�o�r� �W�.� �B�a�i�s�d�e�n� � 9 A global perspective on low-fee private schools: past developments and current issues 137 J�o�a�n�n�a� �H�är�m�ä � 10 Privatization of primary and secondary schools in Afghanistan 150 Ghulam Omar Qargha 11 Marketization without privatization in the Baltic countries: path-dependency and policy change in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 165 Triin Lauri, Kaire Põder and Joonatan Nõgisto 12 The evolution of private schools in Québec: an atypical school market in the Canadian federation 181 Anne Lachance 13 Private education in China: historical evolution and recent development 195 Ruichang Ding, Xinyi Zeng and Zhuoyan Han 14 Education privatization in Uganda: evolution from roots in human needs to a profit-oriented phenomenon 209 Pascal Pax Andebo 15 Education privatization and marketization in France: between state control and stakeholders’ strategies 224 Georges Felouzis and Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade 16 Regulating and financing of private schools in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 236 Rita Nikolai and Bernard Brown PART III BROADENING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENACTMENT AND IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION AND MARKETIZATION 17 Education markets and school segregation: causes, consequences and impacts 250 Emma Rowe 18 Students with disabilities in school choice programs: opportunities for expansion or the Achilles heel? 265 Federico R. Waitoller 19 Religious diversity in Irish primary schools: challenges and opportunities 279 Merike Darmody and Emer Smyth 20 Financing education in lower-income countries: are PPPs the cost-effective solution? 293 Sonia Languille and Maria Ron Balsera 21 Public attitudes toward private education in global perspective 307 Jonas Edlund and Arvid Lindh 22 Teacher preparation for profit, or for the public good? 323 Andrene J. Castro and Wesley Edwards 23 From Xeroxed flyers to TikTok videos: the evolution, practice, and implications of marketing in America’s public schools 341 Catherine DiMartino 24 The marketization and privatization of education in emergencies 354 Francine Menashy and Tavila Haque PART IV ROLLING BACK MARKET FORCES? REGULATORY REFORMS AND RESISTANCE 25 Freedom and equity: iterations of market regulation reforms in French-speaking Belgium 368 Marie Verhoeven and Vincent Dupriez 26 Difficulties in rolling back neoliberal policies in education: resistances to and counter-reform of the Inclusion Law in Chile 383 Alejandro Carrasco 27 Towards an education system for the common good: desegregating Quebec’s schools in a market context 399 Stéphane Vigneault 28 Education stability in an unstable market: the impact of volatility on charter school regulation 414 Joshua Childs and Hanora Tracy 29 The crisis and the market: regulating Peru’s ungoverned private education market 429 María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez G. 30 Complexity, resistance, and forbearance in private markets for primary education in India 444 Emmerich Davies and Abhinav Ghosh 31 Promises and pitfalls of teachers’ ‘Red Wave’ and ‘Blue Wave’ mobilizations: case studies from the United States 458 Hava Rachel Gordon 32 Taking stock, looking ahead: new developments and approaches to education privatization and marketization research 470 Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger, Adrián Zancajo and Huriya Jabbar Index 488