Being Quasi-public Goods:The Nature and Regulative Approach of Disciplinary Private Tutoring
Under the institutional oriented regulatory approach of extracurricular tutoring,the shadow education market is shifting underground in the form of private tutoring.Effective regulation of private tutoring should first clarify its market attributes,while disciplinary and non-disciplinary tu-toring services have essential differences in market attributes.Disciplinary tutoring service are a nat-ural extension of public education services,positioned as quasi-public goods in the public-market spectrum of fundamental education.The free-market supervision approach leads to market failure in terms of publicity of education,and it is difficult to effectively prevent the alienation of private tuto-ring as a tool of academic competition for the dominant groups,as well as the new tutorial gap be-tween urban and rural areas.The quasi market-oriented institutional arrangement is the optimal plan for effective supervision of disciplinary tutoring.It can maintain the publicity of tutoring services,balance the tension between individual choices,educational spirits,and state supervision,and build a regulatory system around the four elements of"goal-subject-content-tool".
extracurricular tutoringprivate tutorial servicesdisciplinary tutoringquasi-pub-lic goodsquasi-market regulationnew tutorial gap