Blackboard and the Bottom Line Why Schools Can't Be Businesses

Name: Blackboard and the Bottom Line Why Schools Can't Be Businesses
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ISBN: 9780674025387

ISBN-10: 0674025385

ISBN-13: 9780674025387

Edition: 2004

Authors: Larry Cuban

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"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring clicheacute; that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education. In this straight-talking book, one of the most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded Age beginnings of the influential view that American schools should be organized to meet the needs of American…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.19" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Business and School Reform



The Logic of the Reforms



How the Reforms Have Changed Schools



Why Schools Have Adopted the Reforms



Limits to Business Influence



Are Public Schools like Businesses?



Has Business Influence Improved Schools?


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index