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Why is corporate America bashing our public schools?

Print Book, English, ©2004
Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, ©2004
vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780325006376, 0325006377
56331419
Introduction : McMerde double bacon cheeseburgers, Steinway pianos, and standing up for the teaching covenant
The words that bind
College entrance : universal measure of public school success or a straw-man setup of Business Roundtable cronies?
One size for all : the Business Roundtable brings the global economy to your neighborhood school
Not-so-strange bedfellows : the Business Roundtable power network
Hijacking democratically elected school boards
and why we should care
Houston : where school business is a corporate affair
No matter who's talking about education reform, look for the footprints of the Business Roundtable
As goes California, so goes the nation
San Francisco : vacating justice
Up close with teachers, tests, and technology
Conclusion : so what do we do now?