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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826206303321

Autore

Picciano Anthony G.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-32229-9

0-415-52413-X

0-203-12061-2

1-283-86222-0

1-136-32230-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education

Altri autori (Persone)

SpringJoel H

Disciplina

378.1/035

Soggetti

Academic-industrial collaboration - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.