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Larry Cuban recounts the sad history of for-profit business ventures contracting with public schools to improve instruction. https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/doing-well-by-doing-good-for-profit-schools/

Diane Ravitch reviews two new books on the dangers of privatization: Sam Abrams new book Education and the Commercial Mindset which also shows the failure of privatization efforts and Mercedes K Schneider’s book Educational Choice: the End of Public Education? which warns of the dangers of wholesale charter expansion. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/when-public-goes-private-as-trump-wants-what-happens/