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Miseducating for the global economy : how corporate power damages education and subverts students' futures / by Gerald Coles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coles, Gerald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Economic aspects--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education and globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- How the American education system became a "global economy" industry All across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators - and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump - cry out for new "education for the twenty-first century economy." Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding well paying, secure.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Educating for the global economy
- The flat world and the education needed for it
- The U.S. economy, schooling, and knowledge
- Corporate 'support' of schooling and protecting corporations
- Constricting the curriculum
- U.S. capitalism's pretense of supporting education for the global economy
- Fighting back.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-58367-693-7
- OCLC:
- 1035845170
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