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Education, Inc.: Turning Learning into a Business

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Education, Inc. education books for free. 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 Author Alfie Kohn and professor of education Patrick Shannon have assembled a provocative collection of articles, including an analysis of the racial implications of voucher programs vivid accounts of how schoolchildren are targeted by advertisers descriptions of how corporate propaganda is insi

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