Public k-12 education as an industrial process
The school as a factory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20201640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James E Groff (The University of Texas at San Antonio), Pamela C Smith (0000-0001-7215-8091, The University of Texas at San Antonio), Tracie Edmond (University of the Incarnate Word) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 543-560 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-3367 • E-ISSN: 1945-1814 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/jpbafm-22-04-2010-b004 |
| OpenAlex | W2184262043 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In this paper we argue that public education in the United States is essentially an industrial process organized to produce a finished product. Rising government spending on public education, and the lack of an established rubric to evaluate school performance or accountability deems our analysis relevant and timely. Viewing education as an industrial process will allow policy-makers to obtain more accurate measures of costs and develop appropriate funding mechanisms. Furthermore, regulators may use managerial accounting concepts, particularly activity based costing, to establish future school performance evaluation rubrics
Accountability · Activity-based costing · Business · Pedagogy · Political science · Process management · Public relations · Rubric · Sociology · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · School Choice and Performance · Accounting
| Highly cited | No |
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