Taylorism and the cult of efficientcy

I thought Callahan's stance on the rise of the businessman or muckrackers, and the dominance of the business ideology that was applied to everything in the United States during the time of T. Roosevelt including education reform. He states the businessman ideology was applied to everything and was propaganda through newspaper, speeches and school board meetings. The very word of "school board" tends to give away to the businessman approach to schools and efficiency. It would seem as though there was a real culture shift from when the men at that time went from wanting to be affiliated with doctors or lawyers to then wanting to be looked upon as a "businessman". I don't things have changed much since then. Schools are still ran on a business model with efficiency being the most important factor. I happened to be in Chicago around the time of this reading while teachers in inner Chicago were on strike. What struck me was when speaking to one of the striking teachers was that their biggest fight with school boards was less students in the classroom. They felt that school boards were piling the students in, giving the teachers very few resources and were being expected to compensate out of their own pockets for the lack of funding. But, really the idea of efficiency can be seen in all aspects of professions. Take a call center, businesses can cram people into a tiny cube, put a headset on them and the worker can get through 200 calls a day. I also think the cultural perception of the "business man" is back. There seemed a time when everyone wanted to grow up and be a doctor or lawyer, but now people are forgoing college all together to try their hand at a start up.