Harvard University Press
Education and the Commercial Mindset
Key Metrics
- Samuel E Abrams
- Harvard University Press
- Paperback
- 9780674986848
- 9.2 X 6 X 1.1 inches
- 1.27 pounds
- Education > Finance
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
America's commitment to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But today the movement to privatize K-12 education is stronger than ever. Samuel E. Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset has taken over.
[An] outstanding book.
--Carol Burris, Washington Post
Given the near-complete absence of public information and debate about the stealth effort to privatize public schools, this is the right time for the appearance of [this book]. Samuel E. Abrams, a veteran teacher and administrator, has written an elegant analysis of the workings of market forces in education.
--Diane Ravitch, New York Review of Books
Education and the Commercial Mindset provides the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the school privatization movement to date. Students of American education will learn a great deal from it.
--Leo Casey, Dissent
Author Bio
Samuel E. Abrams is the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the author of Education and the Commercial Mindset (Harvard University Press, 2016). He was previously a high school history teacher for 18 years and now teaches courses in the economics and politics of education at Teachers College and in moral and political philosophy as part of the Core Curriculum faculty at Columbia College.
For his advancement of the understanding of Finnish education in the United States, he was made a Knight, First Class, Order of the Lion of Finland, by the Finnish government in 2014. His current research projects include a study funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center concerning the impact of vouchers and tuition tax credit scholarships on public school budgets. He earned a B.A. in history, an M.A. in economics and education, and a Ph.D. in politics and education from Columbia.
Education
Columbia University
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Source: Columbia University - Teachers College
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