@article{1478312,
      recid = {1478312},
      author = {Cuban, Larry, },
      title = {The Blackboard and the Bottom Line : Why Schools Can't Be  Businesses /},
      pages = {1 online resource (272 p.)},
      abstract = {"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 should be more businesslike, and shows  that in its long history in business-minded America, no one  has shown that a business model can be successfully applied  to education. In this straight-talking book, one of the  most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded  Age beginnings of the influential view that American  schools should be organized to meet the needs of American  businesses, and run according to principles of  cost-efficiency, bottom-line thinking, and customer  satisfaction. Not only are schools by their nature not  businesslike, Cuban argues, but the attempt to run them  along business lines leads to dangerous  over-standardization--of tests, and of goals for our  children. Why should we think that there is such a thing as  one best school? Is "college for all" achievable--or even  desirable? Even if it were possible, do we really want  schools to operate as bootcamps for a workforce? Cuban  suggests that the best business-inspired improvement for  American education would be more consistent and sustained  on-the-job worker training, tailored for the job to be  done, and business leaders' encouragement--and adoption--of  an ethic of civic engagement and public service.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478312},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674030091},
}