Education and the Commercial Mindset /

Education and the Commercial Mindset / / 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, s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Abrams, Samuel E.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 12 charts, 20 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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