Is public education largely a value-chain business?

The framework of a value chain is the delivery of a mix of products and services (wiki). It identifies where the value is added in an organization and links the process with the main functional parts of the organism. In education value is defined by the students. The chain includes identification of competence needs, learning/competence development and the use of competence performance (Hansen 2007). In the text the author references students being herded into a classroom at the beginning of the school year, and at year’s end having value added to them when they are promoted to the next grade. The product can best be identified as textbooks which are developed utilizing a states comprehensive curriculum as the guide. The decisions of this curriculum are developed by elected officials, administrators, and teachers. The information is then delivered to the student by the teacher, who is providing the service (Christenson et al).