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The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposes the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced.

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""This volume offers us a powerful look at what our current education system is doing to us instead of for us. If you have any doubt that education has become a business designed to first serve corporate interests, then political interests, and rarely individual and community interests, Education as Enforcement is a real education for you."" -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison ""For those of us who have worried that the high-standards, high-stakes reform movement really seeks to mold children into standardized, docile, obedient widget makers taking orders from global corporations, Education as Enforcement provides the realization of our worst nightmare. The chapters range from the abstract and conceptual to concrete examples in the schools of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia to descriptions of how video games train children as soldiers. About the most comforting words in the book are only that the totalitarian trend we are enduring is not inevitable."" -- Gerald W. Bracey, George Mason University and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation ""American schooling narrows life choices to a stark dilemma---resist, or become a thug for capital. If you hold out hope for an education in joy and democracy, read this eye-opening book: read it, teach it, give it away, and then shout it from the mountaintops."" --Marc Bousquet, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University ""Kenneth J. Saltman and David A. Gabbard's revised and expanded edition of Education as Enforcement provides a set of powerful critiques of the continued militarization and corporatization of schools. The studies document serious crises in education in the United States and the need for urgent reform."" --Douglas Kellner, Professor and George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, University of California, Los Angeles

American schooling narrows life choices to a stark dilemma---resist, or become a thug for capital. If you hold out hope for an education in joy and democracy, read this eye-opening book: read it, teach it, give it away, and then shout it from the mountaintops. --Marc Bousquet, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University Kenneth J. Saltman and David A. Gabbard's revised and expanded edition of Education as Enforcement provides a set of powerful critiques of the continued militarization and corporatization of schools. The studies document serious crises in education in the United States and the need for urgent reform. --Douglas Kellner, Professor and George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, University of California, Los Angeles

This volume offers us a powerful look at what our current education system is doing to us instead of for us. If you have any doubt that education has become a business designed to first serve corporate interests, then political interests, and rarely individual and community interests, Education as Enforcement is a real education for you. -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison For those of us who have worried that the high-standards, high-stakes reform movement really seeks to mold children into standardized, docile, obedient widget makers taking orders from global corporations, Education as Enforcement provides the realization of our worst nightmare. The chapters range from the abstract and conceptual to concrete examples in the schools of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia to descriptions of how video games train children as soldiers. About the most comforting words in the book are only that the totalitarian trend we are enduring is not inevitable. -- Gerald W. Bracey, George Mason University and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

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Saltman, Kenneth; Gabbard, David A.

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