Education and the Commercial Mindset
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674049179 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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The new ethos also defined nonprofit charter management organizations (CMOs) like KIPP that surfaced in the wake of EMOs and flourished. In the 1990s, this belief was put to the test by Edison Schools and other for-profit educational management organizations (EMOs). But today the movement to privatize K-12 education is stronger than ever. Yet disappointing academic and financial outcomes soon pushed the company and its competitors to the margins. The focus of EMOs on efficiency and results nevertheless found expression in federal policy with No Child Left Behind in 2002 and Race to the Top in 2009. But the dependence of CMOs on philanthropists, tireless teachers, and students capable of abiding by rigid expectations limits their reach.Abrams argues that while the commercial mindset sidesteps fundamental challenges, public schools should adopt lessons from the b
Abrams is Director, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Samuel E.
Excellent. Eye-popping investigative reporting on the non-profit and for-profit Excellent. Eye-popping investigative reporting on the non-profit and for-profit education initiatives of the past generation complements a rigorous academic apparatus of statistics, theory and international comparative analysis. Abrams begins in the early 1990's, when the former president of Yale (and president . "Five Stars" according to Papadad. The best book on our current educational reform crisis.
Altogether, Abrams makes a compelling case on the limits of private sector practices in public education. It will serve as an invaluable resource for policymakers involved in urban school reform. Grounded in meticulous research in Finland and Sweden as well as the United States, Education and the Commercial Mindset is a bracing assessment of contemporary education reform and its consequences. His analysis of Edison Schools, an educational management organization, demonstrates why private sector practices may easily be applied to purchasing scheduling software or contracting bus service, but why they cannot be easily applied to the management of schools where the purpose and process of education is much more complex and opaque. (Richard J