Education and the Commercial Mindset / / Samuel E. Abrams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Abrams, Samuel E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 12 charts, 20 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. Fundamental Change --; 2. Market Discipline --; 3. On the Wire --; 4. Reprise --; 5. The Governor’s Proposal --; 6. Waterloo --; 7. Redefinition --; 8. Market Failure --; 9. The Fourth Way --; 10. Limits --; 11. A Distant Mirror --; 12. Across the Gulf --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674545786; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674545786
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Samuel E. Abrams.

The movement to privatize K–12 education is stronger than ever. Samuel Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset that sidesteps fundamental challenges has taken over. Nevertheless, public schools should adopt lessons from the business world, such as raising teacher salaries to attract talent.