School Commercialism and the Fate of Public Schooling: What’s “Good” for America?
2006; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 35; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3102/0013189x035007032
ISSN1935-102X
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
Resumon 1952 General Motors president Charles Erwin Wilson famously pronounced, What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country. This outright equation of commercial institutions with national identity, of corporate good with the American good, is the central dynamic explored in both Alex Molnar's School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity (2005) and Kenneth J. Saltman's The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education (2005). However, two major changes have occurred since Wilson's assertion a half-century ago: Many corporations have grown to unprecedented size, the largest overshadowing the economies of most nations (Lodge & Wilson, 2006); and, as these books demonstrate, the trend has spread from car making to education.
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