BLOG POST #2: Scouting the Territory

I want to explore the effect of for-profit schools on the success of inner city students. Not only their academic achievements, but also their financial success as well. Does proprietary education manage to provide better career opportunities than traditional education? Or, is it just bring a large bill for cheap education? Is it both? What if students are given cheaper education, but offered easier employment opportunism? How far can a degree from a for-profit school take a student? 

Most searches included terms like "privatization of higher education" and "inner city" or "urban areas". Then I added "proprietary schools comparing to traditional schools" to the previous terms. Results included journals and articles related to the privatization of education and its positive effects on the inner-city and the sense of community brought back by an educational intuition. Also, results included debates on how propriety schools are lacking good education.

Other search results included journals and articles related to the privatization of education in the US as well as other countries. I may compare America to those countries, but as for now I have limited the searches to the American education system.

One article from Google New presented the racial and social inequities influencing education. (http://inthesetimes.com/article/13828/affirmative_action_debate) Although some believe that cities can benefit from privatization, this article favored public education. It also gave some idea of the correlation between educational institutions and prisons. Maybe better analysis of the effect of privatization on inner city students can be made by comparing the rates of graduation and imprisonment in select cities.

Another article showed some positive effects created by for-profit schools, not for just urban schooling, but all schooling. Apparently, "a competitive market may cause competition and encourage both schools to raise educational quality. (http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/250786/session5EduPrivatizationBelfieldand%20Levin.pdf)