Class Clowns : : How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education / / Jonathan A. Knee.
The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Business School Publishing
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Wizard of Ed
- Chapter Two Rupert and the Chancellor: A Tragic Love Story
- Chapter Three Curious George Schools John Paulson
- Chapter four Michael Milken: Master of the Knowledge Universe
- Chapter Five What Makes a Good Education Business?
- Chapter Six Lessons from Clown School
- Notes
- Index