Are schools turning into businesses?
BARRING A few exceptions, an active involvement of business in education often results in awful blunders that is what the author of the book “The Blackboard and the Bottom line” reveals.
The author of the book, Larry Cuhan, says, "Myths have been cultivated about the victories and mishaps have been ignored, business leaders have appeared – more neither often than nor – as unflinching heroes crafting intelligent and muscular solutions to tough educational problems.” He further adds that now schools are not only business like, there is over-standardisation of schools on business lines.
The author suggests that the business leaders must run or intervene in schools with ‘an ethics of civic engagement and public service’ and talks about the limits to business influence in education.
Even in India, not only the business houses and private social enterprises are setting up chains of schools but also entering into governments schools through public-private partnership programmes at the school level under the scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Programme.
The book published by Harvard Educational Press provides a balanced and fair analysis of the business-led school reform programmes in the US.
Source: http://www.merinews.com
Date: 12th March, 2010
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