Consortium To Scrutinize Productivity of Education
An Illinois philanthropy has created a consortium to examine the productivity of the nation's schools.
The group, funded with a $500,000 grant from the Ball Foundation of Glen Ellyn, Ill., will be led by Sue E. Berryman, director of the Institute on Education and the Economy at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York. It will pay particular attention to the structural problems of schools.
"The consortium will be unique because it will treat education as an industry, analyze it as a whole system, and hold it accountable for productivity improvements,'' said P. Michael...
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