World Yearbook of Education 2027

"This collection is an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to understand the many ways in which education markets rank, exclude and divide. It offers a forensic analysis of the segregating effects of school choice in a range of diverse settings. The evidence is damning."

-Stephen J Ball, Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education, University College London, UK

"The Marketization of Education and School Segregation is an exceptional volume. Given the current political, economic, and ideological realities surrounding dominant educational policies and practices today, the book's detailed analyses are even more important now. It provides a crucial foundation for our necessary deliberations over major elements underpinning the social effects of education."

-Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and editor of Education and the Politics of Interruption: Does the Right Always Win?

“The World Yearbook on Education 2027 contains timely and impressive evidence about drivers of rising school stratification. The consistent findings across international contexts such as the relationship of greater regulation and lower segregation emphasize the urgency of this work for communities, leaders, and policymakers.”

- Professor Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University, USA

"The Marketization of Education and School Segregation is an impressive collection of papers that brings together empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and meticulously analyzed insights from around the world. It has the potential to become essential reading for scholars, students, and policymakers."

-Professor Nihad Bunar, Department of Special Education, Stockholm University, Sweden.

“This Yearbook combines a timely stocktaking across thirteen national cases with empirically grounded, theoretically ambitious chapters on the mutually reinforcing links between choice, privatization, and segregation. The result is a heuristically powerful reorientation of comparative work on education markets, attentive to the layered, stratified ways in which segregation is produced.”

–Mauro C. Moschetti, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

"Education markets work. Sellers and buyers respond to market incentives. The problem is markets often don't work in beneficial ways—with stratification and segregation among those negative consequences. This new Yearbook travels the globe to learn lessons about how and why this happens, and how lawmakers can make better choices."

- Kevin G. Welner is a professor emeritus and research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Director of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC).

“This Yearbook offers a rigorous overview of the links between education markets and school segregation, resisting easy generalisations while offering a structured way through the problem. Across 13 cases, it shows that while marketisation shapes who learns alongside whom, how this happens varies by context, as do the responses it calls for.”

- Clara Fontdevila is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Sociology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona