商品簡介
Focusing on the role and impact of commercialism, market logic, and privatization in the school system, these sixteen papers demonstrate the extent to which corporate power has already penetrated education. Questions related to funding, textbook-selection, advertising and propaganda, and racial inequalities are highlighted. Contributors include journalists, economists, teachers, and professors of education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
ALFIE KOHN was recently described by Time magazine as "perhaps the countrys most outspoken critic of educations fixation on grades [and] test scores." He is the author of seven previous books on education and human behavior, including Punished by Rewards (1993), Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community (1996), and The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" (1999). A former teacher, Kohn now works with educators across the country and speaks regularly at national conferences. He lives (actually) in Belmont, Mass. and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.A former preschool and primary grades teacher, PATRICK SHANNON is currently a professor of education at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of nine books, including Reading Poverty (1998), text, lies,
