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Dana Goldstein: Schools Are Not Businesses

The classroom and the boardroom are two very different worlds.

Francis Reynolds

July 19, 2012

There’s a reason why business-minded education reformers like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates have been attracted to testing, says The Nation‘s Dana Goldstein. But education is a very different realm from the that of the boardroom, and, as she explains, “it can be really problematic to bring this more corporate way of thinking into schools.”

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Francis ReynoldsTwitterFrancis Reynolds is The Nation’s multimedia editor.


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