Education and the Commercial Mindset

Samuel E. Abrams

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ISBN 9780674049178

Publication Date: 04/25/2016

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432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 charts, 20 tables

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Samuel E. Abrams is Director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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On the Ethical Schools podcast, listen to Sam Abrams explain the origin of the “commercial mindset” in American K–12 education: poverty-related stress and underpaid and underprepared teachers are pervasive and expensive problems to fix, so it’s simpler (but problematic) to measure success with standardized test scores and to outsource school management to for-profit and nonprofit corporations
Read a Washington Post feature, informed by discussion with Professor Abrams, about media and education executive Chris Whittle (founder of Edison Schools) and his vision, newly revamped, of for-profit K–12 education
On WFSU (Tallahassee, FL), listen to Abrams discuss the future of public education in Florida as public school leaders and classroom teachers increasingly worry about Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran’s strong support for “school choice” (charter schools and private-school vouchers)
Read Abrams’s Revista Jurídica article, “Exit, Voice, and Charter Schools,” on the implications for Puerto Rico of the March 2018 Education Reform Act
Listen to Abrams discuss the Trump administration’s push to privatize public education with WBUR’s Here and Now
Read Abrams’s Los Angeles Times essay offering five ideas from private business that school reformers should seriously consider instead of charter schools and vouchers
Listen to Abrams debate Bob Bowdon, the executive director of the education news site ChoiceMedia, on the question of whether parents should have the choice to opt out of public schools and redirect taxpayer money for their children to other approved schools or educational options
Watch footage of an Education Writers Association panel discussion of school choice featuring Abrams and others
On The Rick Smith Show, listen to Abrams discuss the rise of Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, billionaire Betsy DeVos
Read a Washington Post interview with Abrams on the education privatization movement and why he thinks mandatory high-stakes testing should be replaced with high-quality sampling
Read an excerpt from Education and the Commercial Mindset at Stanford Social Innovation Review
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