Blackboard and the Bottom Line

"e;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,"e; 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 cliche that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one ...