Ideology, Technology, and Profit
Anthony G. Picciano is Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, Graduate Center, and Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York. Joel Spring is Professor, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Preface 1. Introduction to the Education-Industrial Complex and the Power of Networks 2. The Flat World as Shaped by the Shadow Elite 3. Technology in American Education 4. Corporate Influences: No Child Left Behind, Privatization, and Commercialization 5. Profits, Products and Privatization 6. Foundations and Think Tanks: Policies and Ideas Supporting the Educational-Industrial Complex 7. Media: News Media, Edutainment and the Education-Industrial Complex 8. Conclusion: "A Nation at Risk" Redux About the Authors Index