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A quick view (not the whole book) of educational policy interest groups - tables of number of bills that the groups "testified" for, etc.... if I had extra money, I would totally buy this book.

This post nicely summarizes key points from a book that partly informed the way I designed this course.

Chapter: Teacher Unions and School Board Elections is very interesting when looking at self-interest in the political realm

Dr. Steve Perry is educator, speaker,and author who founded Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, CT. This school has a graduation rate of 100% with all of its graduates going to college. OUTSTANDING WORK!

"we see a society built around profit and monetary gains where the major force driving educational institutions and their enrollees is money; pure profit and economic factors for the majority" "As a result of the uncontrollable turn that modern society has taken in terms of our emergence in a contemporary world built on profit maximization and survivalist economics and materialism, and propulsion toward a future of uncertainty for which we must gather wealth by any means necessary, the degree of competition among us in all walks of life and on all platforms has dramatically increased, and the workplace or proscenium upon which the dramatis personae of economic theories; firms, households, and governments must play, has turned into the battleground where technological advancement, increased knowledge, and the need for more specialized and skilled workers have driven us to commoditize learning opportunities in the form of training and education at an alarming rate. The rate of consumption which the market demands of education and training - knowledge and skills demand and consumption, has left schools, colleges, and universities competing among each other in desperate and even despicable ways, such that education in the form of mere training and book-scanning that the majority offers, has become just another "player" and card in Capitalism's game and race to the bottom of the consciousness funnel."

The article documents the financial and policy constraints that determine what kids eat.

READ THIS - to help in understanding the question posed to us this week!

I really appreciated how the authors delineated at what level each of the functions should reside--e.g. they explained that books should be bought at the intermediate level because States are close enough to the schools to understand the unique needs of the local area but far enough away to avoid collusion. It helped to put things in perspective.