The great American education-industrial complex : ideology, technology, and profit / / Anthony G. Picciano, Joel Spring.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education
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Physical Description:x, 189 p. :; ill.
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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.