In an incisive examination of the clich that schools should be more businesslike, the author demonstrates why no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.
"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...