A unique interdisciplinary compilation of readings that challenge and refocus the basic assumptions about the policies and practices of middle school. This is the first collection of essays that presents multiple critical perspectives on adolescence and middle-level education, including: * critical theory and pedagogy * critical studies of youth ...
According to founder Chris Whittle, the popular press, and educational think-tanks, The Edison Schools were going to revolutionize American education. This book, The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education , illustrates the successes, failures, and ultimate demise of the largest for-profit manager of public schools. ...
"Schooling and the Politics of Disaster" is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Indonesia, the United States and ...
Education as Enforcement locates a rising culture of militarism found not only in popular culture, civil society and US foreign policy but also in educational policy and practices. Considering the rise of school security apparatus, accountability and standards movements, privatization and commercialization, this book highlights the intersections ...
From schools advertising McDonald's, Nike, and Shell oil to military generals appointed as superintendents; from corporate CEOs hailed as education experts to students suspended for wearing Pepsi tee shirts on Coke day; Collateral Damage sifts through a wide range of incidents to reveal how the rising corporatization of public schools needs to be ...
Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so, the authors reveal the extent to ...
A unique interdisciplinary compilation of readings that challenge and refocus the basic assumptions about the policies and practices of middle school. This is the first collection of essays that presents multiple critical perspectives on adolescence and middle-level education, including: * critical theory and pedagogy * critical studies of youth ...
Education as Enforcement locates a rising culture of militarism found not only in popular culture, civil society and US foreign policy but also in educational policy and practices. Considering the rise of school security apparatus, accountability and standards movements, privatization and commercialization, this book highlights the intersections ...
As Junk Bond felon Michael Milken attempts to transform public education on the model of the HMO, he is hailed in the mainstream press as having "done more to help mankind than Mother Theresa." Even as BP Amoco, a notorious US polluter, is charged with funding and arming paramilitaries in Colombia, it freely distributes science curricula that ...
Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, "Capitalizing on Disaster" dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ...
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