ERIC Number: EJ481326
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Publication Date: 1994
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On to the Past: Wrong-Headed School Reform.
Moffett, James
Phi Delta Kappan, v75 n8 p584-90 Apr 1994
Business should participate in school reform but has too narrow a perspective to guide it. Nationalizing education through comparative testing is a move to cut spending for social services, to increase accountability and efficiency without increasing financial responsibility or equity. Imposing private-sector rules on public education undermines citizen responsibility for acting collectively for everyone's benefit. (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Centralization, Citizenship Responsibility, Comparative Testing, Competition, Decentralization, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System, National Competency Tests, National Curriculum, Privatization, Public Education, School Business Relationship, School Choice
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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