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Businesses and education: Companies must push harder to reform schools, report says
- 06-08-2011
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By Joy Resmovits/Huffington Post
America's business leaders say they want to fix education, but they don't know how to do so effectively. As a result, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce commissioned a report that instructs business leaders on the best practices for private-public partnerships in education, according to co-author Whitney Downs, an education policy research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. In November, she and Rick Hess, AEI's director of education policy, sought to find out what they should do. They concluded that businesses need to be more forceful and not merely "pawns" if they want to change schools for the better, according to the report, released Wednesday and titled "Partnership Is a Two-Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform." (more...)
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