Education, Inc.: Turning Learning Into a Business

by Patrick Shannon

While educators want their students to grow into thoughtful and curious people, the overriding objective of corporations is to maximize their own profits. From that fact alone we can predict what is likely to happen to the nature and purposes of our schools when business becomes involved in the education of our children. This unique and timely anthology chronicles the extent of that involvement, along with the troubling consequences it has already...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325004897
• ISBN13: 9780325004891
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12