Dr. Frank Adamson
Publications
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Books
Selection of books authored by Dr. Adamson. Links to view or purchase in the description.
Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the Role of Private Actors in Education
Adamson, F., Aubry, S., de Koning, M., & Dorsi, D. (2021) | Edward Elgar | Open Access.
Realizing the Abidjan Principles presents the process of the first-ever adoption of Human Rights guiding principles for education. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including its articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education and the role of private actors in education. This multidisciplinary volume includes chapters from both legal and education scholars that directly address relevant key issues – parental rights in education, the impact of school choice, and evidence about inequities often arising with private involvement in education at the global level, in East Africa, and in Francophone countries. The concluding chapter details how individuals concerned about the right to education can become familiar with their rights through the Abidjan Principles to help ensure that these rights do not remain locked in text, but that states are held responsible for actually delivering them as promised in international human rights treaties.
Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes
Adamson, F., Åstrand, B., & Darling-Hammond, L. (2016) | New York: Routledge
Global Education Reform, provides a powerful analysis of different ends of an ideological spectrum – from market-based experiments to strong state investments in public education. Written by education researchers and edited by Drs. Adamson, Åstrand, and Darling-Hammond, the authors compare the privatization and public investment approaches to education in three pairs of countries: Chile and Cuba, Sweden and Finland, and the U.S. and Canada. The book consolidates the best available evidence on the implementation issues and specific results of these different approaches.
Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning
Darling-Hammond, L. & Adamson, F. (2014) | Wiley
Beyond the Bubble Test situates the current debate on performance assessment within the context of testing in the United States. This comprehensive resource also looks beyond our U.S. borders to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other places whose reform-mindedness can serve as an example to us.
Statistics indicate that the United States is in danger of falling behind if it fails to adapt to our changing world. The memory and recall strategies of traditional testing are no longer adequate to equip our students with the skills they need to excel in the global economy. Instead teachers need to engage students in deeper learning, assessing their ability to use higher-order skills.
Journals & Research
Education privatization in the United States: Increasing saturation and segregation
Adamson, F. & Galloway, M. (2019) | Education Policy Analysis Archives
Appears in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27 (129)
This article is part one of a special issue, Globalization, Privatization, Nationalization: Assessing Connections in/through Education, Part 2, guest-edited by D. Brent Edwards and Alex Means.
Balancing Priorities: a Primer on Education Privatization
Adamson, F. & Galloway, M. (2021) | Sacramento State and Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
In this primer, we examine the origins, spread, and outcomes of education privatization globally by: 1) defining the phenomenon and its factors, including its historical roots; 2) identifying its pathways, mechanisms, and levels of saturation, globally and locally; and 3) analyzing and comparing its results for student learning and education equity.