The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses
 

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses

by Larry Cuban


"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded... (read more)

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A must--timely, lively!
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, August 31, 2005
Larry Cuban is always timely, but amidst today's hype this is a well-informed, careful and much needed antidote to a lot of what gets said about schooling. It speaks to a wide audience--I hope teachers and school folks read it, and parents, and also the people who write the news we all read.

Deborah Meier
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