Collateral Damage: Corporatizing Public Schools--A Threat to Democracy

By Kenneth J. Saltman

Book Overview

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 understood as a part of a broader attack on the public sector. Uniquely, Collateral Damage considers the privatization of public education in relation to both globalization and local struggles over curriculum, schools, and culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742501027
• ISBN13: 9780742501027
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"