The great American education-industrial complex ideology, technology, and profit

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Picciano, Anthony G. (-)
Other Authors: Spring, Joel H.
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 2013.
Series:Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the education-industrial complex and the power of networks
  • The flat world as shaped by the shadow elite
  • Technology in American education
  • Corporate influences : no child left behind, privatization, and commercialization
  • Profits, products and privatization
  • Foundations and think tanks : policies and ideas supporting the educational-industrial complex
  • Media : news media, edutainment and the education-industrial complex
  • Conclusion: "a nation at risk" redux.