The Edison Schools
Subtitle: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: February 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780415948418
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Educational Policy & Reform; Chemistry - General; Education / Teaching; Education; Privatization in education; Administration - General; Education / Administration; Case studies; Business education; United States
First sentence: H. Christopher Whittle, a native of Tennessee and the son of a doctor, built a media empire that began in the early 1970s with a series of condensed textbooks at the University of Tennessee.