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Direct linkColvin, Richard Lee – Education Next, 2005
American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K-12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards, Private Financial Support, Educational Change
