| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
vi, 179 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The 500-pound gorilla / Alfie Kohn -- 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 -- To market, to market logic in schools -- Reading between the lines / Stephan 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 Gintus -- 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 / Makani N. Themba -- School choice crucible: a case study of Boulder Valley / Kenneth Howe, Margaret Eisenhart, and Damian Betebenner -- Steps we can take / Patrick Shannon. |
| Subject |
Education -- United States -- Marketing.
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Education. |
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United States. |
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Marketing. |
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Commercialism in schools -- United States.
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Commercialism in schools. |
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Business and education -- United States.
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Business and education. |
| Added Author |
Kohn, Alfie.
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Shannon, Patrick, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0325004897 paperback |
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