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...panel’s decision to transfer control of 42 public schools to private organizations is the wrong remedy and threatens the mission of public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets and will likely have unchecked power in hiring and firing decisions...
...boards, nonprofit firms and universities would—but also against the impact on its own bottom line. Sometimes that interest runs counter to the quality of education students receive. For example, more costly programs like performing arts do not produce the kind of higher test schools that help for-profit firms sell their product to other districts and to shareholders. Special educational programs in music do not yield the kind of quantitative results a company can easily pitch...
...controversial heart drug. The results were telling: 96% of the researchers who were supportive of the drug had ties to companies that manufactured it, and only 37% of those critical of the drug had such ties. As more and more scientists either own stock in or get funding from for-profit companies, the ones who have no industry connections are increasingly rare...
...most costly road—it would involve building a completely new interdisciplinary science campus in Allston aimed at working with businesses to create a new Silicon Valley in Boston focused on biotechnology. Such proposals would associate the interests of our science departments with those of for-profit corporations to develop commercial advances. While some facets of this model are attractive, it would shift the University away from its primary goal of teaching its students and producing high-quality academic—not industrial—research. Another option is a “culture and community” model...
...notifying students of new services, for-profit or not, the council is helping to fulfill its aim of improving students’ quality of life. Small startups and especially student entrepreneurs do not always have enough money to advertise on a large scale, yet students should still be able to find out about their often-essential services...