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The Great American Education-Industrial Complex: Ideology, Technology, and Profit book cover

1st Edition

The Great American Education-Industrial Complex Ideology, Technology, and Profit

By Anthony G. Picciano, Joel Spring Copyright 2013
200 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest groups seek to influence policies and practices in public education in the United States. No... Read more

Preface  1. Introduction to the Education-Industrial Complex and the Power of Networks  2. The Flat World as Shaped by the Shadow Elite  3. Technology in American Education  4. Corporate Influences: No Child Left Behind, Privatization, and Commercialization  5. Profits, Products and Privatization  6. Foundations and Think Tanks: Policies and Ideas Supporting the Educational-Industrial Complex  7. Media: News Media, Edutainment and the Education-Industrial Complex  8. Conclusion: "A Nation at Risk" Redux  About the Authors  Index

Biography

 

Anthony G. Picciano is Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, Graduate Center, and Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York.

Joel Spring is Professor, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. 

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