Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education

by Jonathan A. Knee

Book Overview

The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost their shirts.

In Class Clowns, professor and investment banker Jonathan A. Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231179286
• ISBN13: 9780231179287
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher