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The Perils of Treating Schools Like Corporations

May 29, 2019 | Education

Treating education like a market is all the rage. But it hurts students, and our society.

Interview Featuring

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  • Rob Johnson

    • President
    • President, Institute for New Economic Thinking

Video

Baruch College professor and business journalist Andrea Gabor talks to INET President Rob Johnson about her book After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform (New Press, 2018).

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