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Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics (Oxford Studies in Postwar American Political Development)

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. Download Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics (Oxford Studies in Postwar American Political Development) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 occurring and provides a penetrating analysis of the effects of these investments in the two largest urban districts in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles.

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