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...
| Published in: | Futurist Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 38 - 45 |
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World Future Society
May 1999
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