ABSTRACT
The decade of the 1980s witnessed the development of highly visible and well organized business involvement in the schools of the United States that continues into the 1990s. Several formally constituted organizations of corporate leaders including the Business Roundtable (BRT) focused their attention on the nation’s education problems. The BRT’S agenda targets specifically the governance and organization of schools and school systems. Organized in all the fifty states, the BRT’S membership until recently has been exclusively white and male, raising a number of issues central to the new politics of race and gender.
