Don t forget the money made from tutoring, like Sylvan Learning Systems. School districts can learn much from the nation s top business executives and management experts. We can improve schools efficiency and focus. Such executives are mostly well intentioned. But there s an unconscious agenda.
Business has to train millions of new employees in basic math and writing skills.
That costs money. If taxpayers will pay public schools to do it, stockholders won t have to. That s what Work Keys is about. Students and schools more focused on the skills business needs. That s been one of education s goals since the days of J. Abner Peddiwell s The Saber Tooth Curriculum .