Education, Inc.
Subtitle: turning learning into a business
By: edited by Alfie Kohn, Patrick Shannon
Contributors: Kohn, Alfie; Shannon, Patrick, 1951-
Edition: Rev. ed
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Education -- United States -- Marketing; Commercialism in schools -- United States; Business and education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The 500-pound gorilla / Alfie Kohn; title: Buy me! Buy me! / Alex Molnar and Joseph A. Reaves; title: Commercialism in U.S. schools is examined in New Report / Constance L. Hays; title: Do not use as directed: Corporate materials in the schools / John Olson; title: Stealth TV / Russ Baker; title: To market, to market logic in schools; title: Reading between the lines / Stephan Metcalf; title: Test-prep pressure hits grade schools / Karen Brandon; title: Students don't "work," they learn / Alfie Kohn; title: We can work it out / Patrick Shannon; title: Teachers as grantseekers: The privatization of the urban public school teacher / Sara Freedman; title: Schooling in capitalist America / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintus; title: Privatization of schools; title: Schools for sale: public education, corporate culture, and the citizen-consumer / Henry A. Giroux; title: The hollow promise of school vouchers / Robert Lowe; title: For-profits target education / Barbara Miner; title: "Choice" and other white lies / Makani N. Themba; title: School choice crucible: a case study of Boulder Valley / Kenneth Howe, Margaret Eisenhart, and Damian Betebenner; title: Steps we can take / Patrick Shannon