American Education And Corporations: The Free Market Goes To School; Author: Boyles, Deron; Hardback; Book

Author: Boyles, Deron
Series#:1; Pedagogy and Popular Culture; Hardback; Book; Illustrations
218 pages
Published: October 1998
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN: 0815328222

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.Argues that private businesses are using public schools as worker training sites, resulting in the teaching force being devalued, students being molded into uncritical consumers, and schools being transformed into economic markets. Analyzes school-business partnerships and points out false philanthr