Business sees profits in education: challenging public schools.

Private enterprise is creating a rapid and dramatic series of changes in U.S. education. The private sector is moving into education for three reasons. First, education is a lucrative market, estimated to be worth $600 billion. Second, it has received such bad publicity that confidence in the sys...

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Publicado en:Futurist Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 38 - 45
Autor principal: Buchen, Irving H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: World Future Society May 1999
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Sumario:Private enterprise is creating a rapid and dramatic series of changes in U.S. education. The private sector is moving into education for three reasons. First, education is a lucrative market, estimated to be worth $600 billion. Second, it has received such bad publicity that confidence in the system is low. Third, the general attitude is that public educators have no one but themselves to blame for corrective intervention from the private sector. The writer describes the different companies competing for the educational market, grouped by the main technology they use.