Foreword by Stephen Ball Introduction by A. Santalova & K. Põder Section 1. Overview: Educational Diversification and Public Preferences Chapter 1: Is the Common School Dead? Dilemmas of Plural Public Spaces Bruce Fuller Chapter 2: The Moral Economy of Diversity in Educational Options in Four European 'Choice' Countries Triin Lauri, Kaire Põder Section 2. Privatization of Education: Exogenous Forms Chapter 3: Measuring the Efficiency of Private Schools: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Evidence Tommaso Agasisti and Simona Ferraro Chapter 4: Privatisation by Default: The Global Expansion and Implications of Private Supplementary Tutoring Wei Zhang & Mark Bray Chapter 5: The Growth of Private Schools in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Drivers and Implications Susan M. Kippels Chapter 6: Shared and Contested Views of Education Professionals on the Forms of Privatisation within Comprehensive Schooling in Finland Nina Nivanahoa Mikko Haavistob, Tuire Palonenb, Sonia Lempinena, Piia Seppänena Chapter 7: Privatization in Children's Extracurricular Education Sector: the Case of Russia and the Post-Soviet Context Sergey Kosaretsky, Ivan Y. Ivanov Section 3. Privatization in Education: Endogenous Forms Chapter 8: School Financing and Equal Educational Opportunity: A Review of Policy Interventions Kristof De Witte, Mike Smet and Ruben Van Assche Chapter 9: State Advances, Min Retreats: Recentralisation of Minban Education in China Raymond K.

H. Chan, Ying Wang Chapter 10: School Autonomy as a Form of Privatization in Public Schooling in Post-Soviet Republics of Central Asia--Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Antonina Santalova Chapter 11: Where the Public was Always Private: Going Beyond Privatization in/of/through Education and Policymaking in Post-colonial Contexts Mauro C. Moschetti, D. Brent Edwards Jr., & Alejandro Caravaca Chapter 12: COVID-19 and the Commercialization of Finnish Schooling: a National 'Digileap' and a Global Re-imagining of Digitalized Public Schooling Iida Kiesi and Anna Hogan Section 4. Conclusion: Patterns and Policies Chapter 13: Patterns of Privatization in/of Education Antonina Santalova Chapter 14: Policies: The Way Forward for Privatization Kaire Põder.