scholarly journals Elite Interests and Public Expenditure in Education in the late XIX and early XX Century in Prussia: A Dialogue Between History and Economics

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-124
Author(s):  
Sebastian Enrique Acosta Madiedo Aranzalez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Empirical Models ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Public Education Policy ◽  
Public Expenditure In Education

This paper discusses how Prussia’s public education policy was intentionally guided by economic principles that modern economists have formalized and modeled. The essay compares the results of two economic models with the intentions held by Prussian government officials, which are enshrined in the research agenda of historians and academics. The paper concludes that Prussia’s public education policy was intuitively and intentionally influenced by economic principles and intuitions of the theoretical and empirical models chosen.

‘Religious schools, civic education, and public policy: A framework for evaluation and decision’

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian MacMullen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Public Education Policy

Some people claim that religious schools are poorly suited to prepare children for citizenship in a multi-religious society that is (or aspires to be) a liberal democracy. In what sense(s), by what mechanism(s), and to what extent might this be so? And what could be the implications for public policy? I propose an analytical and evaluative framework for addressing these questions. There are several potentially independent dimensions on which a school may have a religious character, and each of these dimensions is a continuous variable. Schools that are strongly religious on all of these dimensions are indeed very poor instruments of civic education in a multi-religious society. But what about schools whose religious character is far weaker on each dimension? If these schools are inferior to their secular counterparts for civic educational purposes, that inferiority may be very slight. Given the great diversity among religious schools, and if – as I argue – the civic goals of education are not the only important values that ought to guide public education policy, there are powerful reasons to discriminate among (proposed) religious schools when making policy decisions about regulation and funding. Those who oppose such a discriminating approach must demonstrate that the benefits of ‘difference blindness’ in this domain outweigh its substantial costs.

Optimal public education policy in a two sector model

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 991-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichiro Sano ◽  
Yasunobu Tomoda
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Sector Model ◽  
Public Education Policy
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