Description :
America’s commitment to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But today the movement to privatize K–12 education is stronger than ever. Samuel E. Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset has taken over.
Samuel E. Abrams is Director, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Content :
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
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