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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Schools Matter: Money, Test Prep, Money,Exams,Money

Schools Matter: Money, Test Prep, Money,Exams,Money:


Money, Test Prep, Money,Exams,Money


Guest Post: 
Robert Rendo
Nationally Board Certified Teacher,
New York 

Public education has long become a billion dollar industry, according to a report put out way back in 2007 by Thomas Meldon, professor in the Benerd School of Education at the University of the Pacific in California, and editor of Teacher Education Quarterly, and Bruce A. Jones, professor and director of the David C. Anchin Center at the University of South Florida.

In their fact finding, they state that companies that produce educational materials and supplies were (then) over the billion