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From Village School to Global Brand: Changing the World through Education
Hardcover
Overview
Can education be run as a profitable business and still be driven by a humanitarian vision? SABIS® shows the answer is yes. With eighty schools in fifteen countries and over sixty thousand students, SABIS® is a global education company committed to improving lives. SABIS® has successfully managed schools for 125 yearsincluding the first charter school to reopen after Katrinaand this fascinating history explains the new paradigm it is spearheading and will appeal to anyone interested in education.
James Tooley is a professor of education policy at Newcastle University. His previous books include The Beautiful Tree and Educational Equality.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781846685453 |
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Publisher: | Profile Books Limited |
Publication date: | 08/28/2012 |
Pages: | 256 |
Product dimensions: | 6.38(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.38(d) |
About the Author
James Tooley is a professor of education policy at Newcastle university, where he directs the E. G. West Centre. He is currently chairman of education companies in Ghana and China creating embryonic chains of low cost private schools. He is the author of numerous books on education including The Beautiful Tree: A personal journey into how the world’s poorest people are educating themselves, and Educational Equality which he co-authored.
Table of Contents
Foreword Harry Anthony Patrinos ix
Introduction 1
Part 1 War and Peace 13
1 Climbing Mount Lebanon 15
2 The good life 38
3 Out of Lebanon 62
Part 2 Making a difference in difficult places 83
4 An American roller coaster 85
5 American antidote 124
6 A school fit for Hêro 151
7 In partnership 172
8 Licensed to ascend 195
Part 3 The enterprise of education 223
9 The logic of learning 225
10 The community of learners 256
11 The evolution of the learning environment 275
12 The education industry 298
Conclusion 329
Notes 339
Acknowledgments 346
Index 347