| Description |
vi, 179 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The 500-Pound Gorilla / Alfie Kohn -- Sect. I. Commercialism in Schools. Buy Me! Buy Me! / Alex Molnar and Joseph A. Reaves. Commercialism in U.S. Schools Is Examined in New Report / Constance L. Hays. Do Not Use as Directed: Corporate Materials in the Schools / John Olson. Stealth TV / Russ Baker -- Sect. II. To Market, to Market - Market Logic in Schools. Reading Between the Lines / Stephen Metcalf. Test-Prep Pressure Hits Grade Schools / Karen Brandon. Students Don't "Work" - They Learn / Alfie Kohn. We Can Work It Out / Patrick Shannon. Teachers as Grantseekers: The Privatization of the Urban Public School Teacher / Sara Freedman. Schooling in Capitalist America / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Sect. III. Privatization of Schools. Schools for Sale: Public Education, Corporate Culture, and the Citizen-Consumer / Henry A. Giroux. The Hollow Promise of School Vouchers / Robert Lowe. For-Profits Target Education / Barbara Miner. "Choice" and Other White Lies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Education -- United States -- Marketing.
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Commercialism in schools -- United States.
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Business and education -- United States.
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| Author |
Shannon, Patrick, 1951-
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Kohn, Alfie.
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| LC no. |
2002005724 |
| ISBN |
0325004897 paperback |
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