After the education wars : how smart schools upend the business of reform /
"In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains ho...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The New Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26193061 |
| Summary: | "In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and--contrary to popular belief--at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well."--Amazon |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (373 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781620972007 162097200X 9781620971994 1620971992 |