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The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can´t Be Businesses
Larry Cuban
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Description for The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can´t Be Businesses
Paperback. Shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education. This book argues that the attempt to run them along business lines leads to dangerous over-standardization - of tests, and of goals for our children. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
"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 cliché 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674025387
SKU
V9780674025387
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About Larry Cuban
Larry Cuban is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University and past president of the American Educational Research Association.
Reviews for The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can´t Be Businesses
Sharply relevant to our current preoccupations. [The Blackboard and the Bottom Line] is scholarly, well-documented, and shot through with a passion for community-based education. Very readable, and recommended.
Michael Duffy
Times Educational Supplement
It's hardly a surprise that corporate leaders have spent more than a century trying to remake schools in their own companies' images so that ... Read more
Michael Duffy
Times Educational Supplement
It's hardly a surprise that corporate leaders have spent more than a century trying to remake schools in their own companies' images so that ... Read more