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Summary
Summary
Companies in the business of providing knowledge for profit will dominate the 21st-century global marketplace. The authors advise on how to accomplish this. The book is full of examples from companies that have succeeded in making their businesses more profitable.
Reviews 3
Publisher's Weekly Review
Is America doomed to be the ``best schooled and least educated modern society''? Davis (Future Perfect) and Botkin (No Limits to Learning) ask and answer the question, predicting that America's schools will undergo an eventual metamorphosis because business (and business-driven learning) are likely to assume ``the major responsibility for the kind of education... necessary for any country to remain competitive in the new economy.'' The authors argue that ``smart technologies,'' effective institutional training and the phenomenon of lifelong learning will persuade educators that America has an invaluable opportunity ``to reinvigorate and even redefine'' its education system. Davis and Botkin's ideas could and should spark public policy debates. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Davis and Botkin investigate today's complicated relationship between business and education. The job and information requirements of business now set the agenda for what must be learned and have established the need for a program of lifelong learning. At the same time, business has become a major education provider, teaching and training employees on the job and, in a growing number of instances, taking over the administration of schools as governments experiment with privatization. The authors document those trends and analyze their impact. They include their concern that education dominated by business may lead to a two-tiered society of information haves and have-nots. (What they ignore is the role that libraries can play in education and lifelong learning.) The "monster under the bed" is a story created by a five-year-old on her computer and disseminated by means of an electronic bulletin board--a story that illustrates the use of technology in learning that is already taken for granted but also suggests a fear of the unknown or the unmanageable. Highly recommended for education, business, and technology collections. ~--David Rouse
Library Journal Review
In a time when the term paradigm shift is used freely to justify minor changes to existing structures and systems, this book truly presents a new perspective on a matter of interest to almost everyone: education. The authors, both business consultants, contend that it will be the private, rather than the public, sector that will determine the educational methods of the future. They believe that a market-driven learning industry is rapidly developing in this country, revolutionizing the practice of education and changing it for the better. While many will not agree with their conclusions, readers will be challenged to examine their own beliefs about education, its purpose, and how it should be provided in our society. This book is interesting, thought-provoking, and controversial; it should be read by students, parents, educators, government officials, business leaders, and the public at large. Highly recommended.-Robert Logsdon, Indiana State Univ. Lib., Indianapolis (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
