The blackboard and the bottom line
Subtitle: why schools can't be businesses
By: Larry Cuban.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Business and education -- United States.; Public schools -- United States.; Educational change -- United States.
Description: "In this new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliche 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 book, one of the most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded Age beginnings of the influential view that American schools should be organized to meet the needs of American businesses, and run according to principles of cost-efficiency, bottom-line thinking, and customer satisfaction."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-242) and index.