Class Clowns - How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education

The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing. They have, with surprising regularity, lost their shirts. In Class Clowns, professor and investment banker Jonathan A. Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail.

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"Class Clowns will be intriguing for educators who, while they may be skeptical of reforms borrowed from the business sector, do not actually know much about the business decisions underlying these reforms. Do market-inspired reforms that fall short educationally also disappoint investors and backers? Jonathan Knee makes a fervent and entertaining case." - Susan Fuhrman, president, Teachers College

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan A. Knee, Knee Jonathan A.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2017
• EAN: 9780231179287
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17928-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Education, Business & Economics / General, Business studies: general, education; finance