Time: March 25, 2023, 8:00PM (Beijing) | 8:00AM (New York)
Location: Online (Scan one of the QR codes to register)
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Event language: English
Guest Speakers:
- Prof. Samuel E. Abrams, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Prof. Henry M. Levin, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Prof. Mingyuan Gu, Beijing Normal University
- Prof. Ruichang Ding, Institue of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University
Moderator:
- Dr. Henan Cheng, Center on Chinese Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
About the book
The commitment in many countries to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But the movement today to privatize public schooling is stronger than ever. In examining the rise of market forces in education policy in the United States and abroad, Samuel E. Abrams reveals in Education and the Commercial Mindset how these forces have taken hold. With an introduction by Mingyuan Gu and a preface by the author, this Chinese translation provides readers a global perspective on the growing impact of privatization on schooling.
In The New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch described Education and the Commercial Mindset as “an elegant analysis of the workings of market forces in education.” In Dissent, Leo Casey wrote, “Education and the Commercial Mindset provides the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the school privatization movement to date.” In Educational Researcher, Tommaso Agasisti wrote, “This is a book that all supporters as well as opponents of school choice and educational privatization should read, because the hypotheses and findings are expressed so convincingly that they may serve as a field trial for testing one’s own opinions.”