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Giving kids the business : the commercialization of America's schools

This work exposes the ways in which corporate America is turning schools into profit centres, the curriculum into an advertising vehicle and children into a cash crop. It argues that "market-orientated" school reforms lower the quality of public education.
Print Book, English, 1996
Westview Press, Boulder, Colo., 1996
XII, 223 Seiten
9780813324784, 0813324785
260222317
Marching As If to War; And Now a Word from Our Sponsor; High-Tech Hucksters Go to School; Schools for Profit: Follow the Yellow Brick Road; Private School Vouchers: A False Choice; Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment; What the Market Cant Provide.