Education, Inc. : turning learning into a business / edited by Alfie Kohn, Patrick Shannon.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kohn, Alfie
Shannon, Patrick, 1951-
Language:English
Published: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2002], ©2002.
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
Education > United States > Marketing.
Commercialism in schools > United States.
Business and education > United States.
Physical Description:vi, 179 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.