American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? Diane Ravitch
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American education is under attack from all sides. The latest of these attacks come from those who would like to turn public education into a business. The idea that our schools should be run like a business and encourage competition and testing results in a constant state of fear and stress for teachers and students alike. If we want to make our schools work like a business, we need to make our children work like workers. We need to instill in them the dignity and self-esteem that comes with hard work and not the false pride that comes from having more than one job.

Source: The Death And Life Of The Great American School System: How Testing And Choice Are Undermining Education

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