Steven J Klees
Biographic Data
| ID | 5742360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven J Klees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven J |
| FAMILY NAME | Klees |
| SIGNATURE | KLEES S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Why SDG 4 and the other SDGs are failing and what needs to be done
The World Bank’s Saber
The World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) purports to benchmark developing country education systems against global best practices. SABER covers 13 topics, called “domains,” and has produced over 16,000 indicators of what the Bank considers best practice and applied them in over 130 countries. Yet this massive effort has received hardly any critical scrutiny. In this article, we argue that this search for global best …
The 2018 World Development Report on Education
Liberia’s experiment with privatising education
To experiment with the possible privatisation of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) study was initiated comparing the PSL schools with matched public schools and the results were recently published. This paper is a critical analysis of the PSL and its RCT study and has three…
Financing education
This forum seeks to problematise issues related to the lack of resources to adequately finance public education systems. It explores potential solutions based on increased domestic resource mobilisation through progressive taxation in order to meet the growing financing gap needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. While many governments in poor countries are already demonstrating a strong commitment to funding education, the papers…
The political economy of education and inequality
Piketty’s Capitalism in the twenty-first century provides a superb, detailed historical analysis of the evolution of income and wealth inequality. Piketty demonstrates vast and increasing inequality that he argues might possibly be tempered in the future by economic growth and educational expansion supplemented by government redistributive policies. However, Piketty has little understanding of the reproductive nature of education, the limits of e…
VAMs Are Never “Accurate, Reliable, and Valid”
Privatização da educação experiências dos Estados Unidos e outros países
Objetiva-se analisar as medidas de privatização da educação adotadas nos Estados Unidos no marco do neoliberalismo, as produções elaboradas a esse respeito e o papel de indução às políticas privatistas do Banco Mundial. Para efeito de qualificação da argumentação, em alguns casos, analisa-se, à luz de produções sobre o tema, políticas de privatização adotadas em outros países
Increasing the number of female primary school teachers in African countries
Women teachers in Liberia
School choice international
A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education
Neoclassical economics focuses on the efficiency of a free‐market system and the associated role of the public sector. As a school of thought, it has been around for over a century, with antecedent
Neoliberalism and education revisited
It is an honour to have the editors of Globalisation, Societies and Education solicit four thoughtful reviews of my article, and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to respond to them. These
World Bank education policy
NGOs
Justice as Fairness
A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education
Neoclassical economics focuses on the efficiency of a free‐market system and the associated role of the public sector. As a school of thought, it has been around for over a century, with antecedent
World Bank education policy
Financing education
This forum seeks to problematise issues related to the lack of resources to adequately finance public education systems. It explores potential solutions based on increased domestic resource mobilisation through progressive taxation in order to meet the growing financing gap needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. While many governments in poor countries are already demonstrating a strong commitment to funding education, the papers…
Women teachers in Liberia
Increasing the number of female primary school teachers in African countries
School choice international
Why SDG 4 and the other SDGs are failing and what needs to be done
Liberia’s experiment with privatising education
To experiment with the possible privatisation of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) study was initiated comparing the PSL schools with matched public schools and the results were recently published. This paper is a critical analysis of the PSL and its RCT study and has three…
The 2018 World Development Report on Education
Justice as Fairness
NGOs
World Bank education policy
A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education
Neoclassical economics focuses on the efficiency of a free‐market system and the associated role of the public sector. As a school of thought, it has been around for over a century, with antecedent
Neoliberalism and education revisited
It is an honour to have the editors of Globalisation, Societies and Education solicit four thoughtful reviews of my article, and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to respond to them. These
School choice international
Women teachers in Liberia
Increasing the number of female primary school teachers in African countries
Privatização da educação experiências dos Estados Unidos e outros países
Objetiva-se analisar as medidas de privatização da educação adotadas nos Estados Unidos no marco do neoliberalismo, as produções elaboradas a esse respeito e o papel de indução às políticas privatistas do Banco Mundial. Para efeito de qualificação da argumentação, em alguns casos, analisa-se, à luz de produções sobre o tema, políticas de privatização adotadas em outros países
The political economy of education and inequality
Piketty’s Capitalism in the twenty-first century provides a superb, detailed historical analysis of the evolution of income and wealth inequality. Piketty demonstrates vast and increasing inequality that he argues might possibly be tempered in the future by economic growth and educational expansion supplemented by government redistributive policies. However, Piketty has little understanding of the reproductive nature of education, the limits of e…
VAMs Are Never “Accurate, Reliable, and Valid”
Financing education
This forum seeks to problematise issues related to the lack of resources to adequately finance public education systems. It explores potential solutions based on increased domestic resource mobilisation through progressive taxation in order to meet the growing financing gap needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. While many governments in poor countries are already demonstrating a strong commitment to funding education, the papers…
Liberia’s experiment with privatising education
To experiment with the possible privatisation of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) study was initiated comparing the PSL schools with matched public schools and the results were recently published. This paper is a critical analysis of the PSL and its RCT study and has three…
The 2018 World Development Report on Education
The World Bank’s Saber
The World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) purports to benchmark developing country education systems against global best practices. SABER covers 13 topics, called “domains,” and has produced over 16,000 indicators of what the Bank considers best practice and applied them in over 130 countries. Yet this massive effort has received hardly any critical scrutiny. In this article, we argue that this search for global best …
Why SDG 4 and the other SDGs are failing and what needs to be done
Political science (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Finance (3 works)