American Education and Corporations

by Boyles,Deron

• ISBN13: 9780815328216
• ISBN10: 0815328214
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Schools as Sites for Consumer Materialism	3	(38)
Corporate Culture and Schools: Consultants in Search of New Markets	41	(20)
The Kroger Connection	61	(50)
Privatization and the Future of Public Schooling	111	(62)
Critically Transitive Teachers	173	(38)
Index	211