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THE BLACKBOARD AND THE BOTTOM LINE T H E B L A C K B O A R D A N D T H E B O T T O M L I N E Why Schools Can’t Be Businesses L A R R Y C U B A N HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England • 2004 Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Cuban,Larry. Theblackboardandthebottomline:whyschoolscan’tbebusinesses/LarryCuban. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-674-01523-1(alk.paper) 1.Businessandeducation—UnitedStates. 2.Publicschools—UnitedStates. 3.Educationchange—UnitedStates. I.Title. LC1085.2.C83 2004 371.19′5—dc22 2004052312 ForLarryKowitch,1929–2004 AdearfriendwhomIlovedandadmiredforhis intelligence,compassion,andplayfulwit C O N T E N T S Introduction:BusinessandSchoolReform 1 1 TheLogicof theReforms 15 2 HowtheReformsHaveChangedSchools 39 3 WhySchoolsHaveAdoptedtheReforms 69 4 LimitstoBusinessInﬂuence 89 5 ArePublicSchoolslikeBusinesses? 118 6 HasBusinessInﬂuenceImprovedSchools? 158 Notes 195 Acknowledgments 243 Index 245 THE BLACKBOARD AND THE BOTTOM LINE

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"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 sh

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THE BLACKBOARD AND THE BOTTOM LINE T H E B L A C K B O A R D A N D T H E B O T T O M L I N E Why Schools Can’t Be Businesses L A R R Y C U B A N HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England • 2004 Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Cuban,Larry. Theblackboardandthebottomline:whyschoolscan’tbebusinesses/LarryCuban. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-674-01523-1(alk.paper) 1.Businessandeducation—UnitedStates. 2.Publicschools—UnitedStates. 3.Educationchange—UnitedStates. I.Title. LC1085.2.C83 2004 371.19′5—dc22 2004052312 ForLarryKowitch,1929–2004 AdearfriendwhomIlovedandadmiredforhis intelligence,compassion,andplayfulwit C O N T E N T S Introduction:BusinessandSchoolReform 1 1 TheLogicof theReforms 15 2 HowtheReformsHaveChangedSchools 39 3 WhySchoolsHaveAdoptedtheReforms 69 4 LimitstoBusinessInﬂuence 89 5 ArePublicSchoolslikeBusinesses? 118 6 HasBusinessInﬂuenceImprovedSchools? 158 Notes 195 Acknowledgments 243 Index 245 THE BLACKBOARD AND THE BOTTOM LINE

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"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 sh

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