American Education and Corporations the Free Market Goes to School
- List Price: $195.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Publish date: 07/01/1998
Description:
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.
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