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Learning politics, profit, and privatization: An easy lesson
This text offers valuable information in which one can become a more informed citizen on the political rhetoric over educational reform. The text is not unproblematic however. The small section on "school as a civic sphere" needed to be expanded upon as well as the way in which all of the reforms focused upon math and reading test scores. Overall, these areas remain...
Published on January 10, 1999 by kmt127@psu.edu
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Nothing new here, but...
One would have thought that after Chubb and Moe's book we would find new insight here; but these writers are not only not economists, but are generally 'conservative' in the sense that they simply won't admit that impoverished kids are desperate for better schools. This book is somewhat closed-minded, but there are valuable lessons to be learned as well. Those who...
Published on October 27, 1999
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Nothing new here, but...,
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This review is from: Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report) (Paperback)
One would have thought that after Chubb and Moe's book we would find new insight here; but these writers are not only not economists, but are generally 'conservative' in the sense that they simply won't admit that impoverished kids are desperate for better schools. This book is somewhat closed-minded, but there are valuable lessons to be learned as well. Those who seek profit in education are the vultures who await perched upon the current debate. But things are indeed desperate, and these troublingly complacent academics are not helping things, in my opinion. Worth a read, to be sure...
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Learning politics, profit, and privatization: An easy lesson,
By kmt127@psu.edu (State College PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report) (Paperback)
This text offers valuable information in which one can become a more informed citizen on the political rhetoric over educational reform. The text is not unproblematic however. The small section on "school as a civic sphere" needed to be expanded upon as well as the way in which all of the reforms focused upon math and reading test scores. Overall, these areas remain minor in comparison the benefits of this text.
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Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund Report) by Carol Ascher (Paperback - Oct. 1996)
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