Publications
Publications
- May 2002 (Revised July 2002)
- HBS Case Collection
U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership
Abstract
Explores the area of education and ways in which corporations have played a role in its improvement. Not intended to cover all examples of corporate involvement but, instead, to provide a sense of the range of ways that corporations have become involved, either philanthropically or as a business endeavor, with the educational sector. Describes the U.S. educational system and focuses on some of the key reforms that have been implemented over the course of the past several decades. These reforms have ranged from establishing standards to increasing testing and accountability to experimenting with school structure to improving teaching quality to enhancing the curriculum to introducing technology and e-learning. Pays special attention to the role of corporations and the business community in these reform efforts.
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Citation
Barrett, Diana, and Sheila McCarthy. "U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 302-087, May 2002. (Revised July 2002.)