Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics

by Sarah Reckhow

Book Overview

Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropic organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Broad Foundation, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a political agenda, these foundations have helped to reshape the reform landscape in urban education. In Follow the Money, Sarah Reckhow shows where and how foundation investment in education is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199937737
• ISBN13: 9780199937738
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"