The great American education-industrial complex
Subtitle: ideology, technology, and profit
By: Anthony G. Picciano, Joel Spring
Contributors: Spring, Joel H., author
Series: Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780415524131; 9780415524148; 9780203120613
Subjects: Academic-industrial collaboration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the education-industrial complex and the power of networks; title: The flat world as shaped by the shadow elite; title: Technology in American education; title: Corporate influences : no child left behind, privatization, and commercialization; title: Profits, products and privatization; title: Foundations and think tanks : policies and ideas supporting the educational-industrial complex; title: Media : news media, edutainment and the education-industrial complex; title: Conclusion: "a nation at risk" redux.