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American education and corporations : the free market goes to school / by Deron Boyles.
Van Pelt Library LC1085.2 .B69 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyles, Deron.
- Series:
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1159.
- Garland reference library of social science. Pedagogy and popular culture ; v. 1.
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1159. Pedagogy and popular culture ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business and education--United States.
- Business and education.
- Commercialism in schools.
- United States.
- Commercialism in schools--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 1998.
- Summary:
- This work argues that private businesses use public schools as worker training sites, resulting in a devalued teaching force, students as uncritical consumers, and schools as economic markets. Boyles analyzes school-business partnerships, revealing false philanthropy and the ulterior motives behind fast-food reading campaigns and supermarket "sales for schools" promotions. This important book criticizes the practice of privatization itself, revealing it to be a conservative gambit to secure class differences, and not a simple extension of free market business influence into the public sector.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0815328222
- OCLC:
- 38602192
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