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Schooling The Market: Venture Philanthropy, Field Building And The Newschools Venture Fund, Gregory E. Tewksbury
Schooling The Market: Venture Philanthropy, Field Building And The Newschools Venture Fund, Gregory E. Tewksbury
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Since the 1980s and the Reagan administration’s report “A Nation at Risk” and with the passage of No Child Left Behind during the George W. Bush Administration, the ground of public education has shifted. Reform efforts previously geared toward improving the system of public education have been superseded by the efforts of venture philanthropies and foundations like Gates, Walton and Broad to remake education into a private market. The power of these institutions politically, socially and economically to reshape the educational landscape inAmericaraises fundamental questions about the role of wealthy elites and their influence on democracy and education.
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