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The "business" of reforming American schools

Title
The "business" of reforming American schools / Denise Gelberg.
Author
Gelberg, Denise, 1951-
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.

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Description
xv, 329 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
Focusing on the influence of the business community on schools, this book describes how popular business management theories and production processes have been imported into schools during periods of societal upheaval in order to create a sense of order and efficiency while meeting the objective of producing a workforce that meets the specifications set down by employers. Unlike other books that say why schools need to be reformed or how that reform should proceed, this study takes a critical look at the latest call to restructure schools in light of the economic, social, and political forces that affect the education establishment and the children of our nation.
Series Statement
SUNY series, restructuring and school change
Uniform Title
SUNY series, restructuring and school change
Subject
  • Educational change > United States > History
  • Education > Aims and objectives > United States
  • Business and education > United States > History
  • Business and education
  • Education > Aims and objectives
  • Educational change
  • Schulreform
  • Geschichte
  • Qualitätsmanagement
  • Onderwijs
  • Verandering
  • Schule
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-315) and index.
Contents
Tenor of the Times / Pro-Efficiency Reforms Transplant Business Methods to the Schoolhouse / Alternative Reform Agenda -- Education for Individual Development and Democracy / 1960s and the Challenge to the Schools / Renewed Sense of Crisis and a New Management Model Spur Education Reform, 1983 -- 1995 / New Model for Efficient Education / Rochester, New York, a Laboratory for the New Pro-Efficiency Reforms / Choices We Face.
ISBN
  • 0791435059
  • 9780791435052
  • 0791435067
  • 9780791435069
  • 058509165X
  • 9780585091655
LCCN
96053673
OCLC
  • ocm36143616
  • 36143616
  • SCSB-8891148
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library