American Education and Corporations: The Free Market Goes to School

By Deron Boyles

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815328214
• ISBN13: 9780815328216
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher