American Education and Corporations
Author | : Deron Boyles |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-12-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135653170 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135653178 |
Rating | : 4/5 (178 Downloads) |
Download or read book American Education and Corporations written by Deron Boyles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.