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Business-Managed Democracy

“Business-managed democracies are those in which the political and cultural arrangements are managed in the interests of business”

Sharon Beder

Business-Managed Education

References

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Bacon, David, 2002, ‘Testing Companies Go for the Gold’, Rethinking Schools Online, vol 16, no 3.

Baker, Mike, 2006, ‘Why Skills Are the New Education’, BBC News, 9 December.

Barkan, Joanne, 2011, 'Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools', Dissent, Winter.

Baron, Dennis, 2002, ‘Will Anyone Accept the Good News on Literacy?’ The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 48, no 21, 2002.

Berliner David C. and Biddle, Bruce J. 1995, The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools, Cambridge, Mass., Perseus Books.

Berman, Edward H. 1996, ‘The Politics of American Education and the Struggle for Cultural Dominance, 1996-’, Melboune Studies in Education, vol 37, no 1, pp. 21-46.

Brandon, Karen, 2002, ‘Test-Prep Pressure Hits Grade Schools’, in Alfie Kohn and Patrick Shannon (eds) Education, Inc. Turning Learning into a Business, revised ed. Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, pp. 58-62.

Building Support for Tests That Count pdf’, Washington, DC, The Business Roundtable, November 1998.

Chute, Eleanor, 2006, ‘Back to School: Education Booms into a $850 Billion Enterprise’, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 30 August.

Clarke, Ben, 2004, ‘Exam Privatization Threatens Public Schools’, CorpWatch, 23 September.

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Dillon, Sam, 2011, 'Behind Grass-Roots School Advocacy, Bill Gates', New York Times, 21 May.

Dillon, Sam, 2004, ‘For Children Being Left Behind, Private Tutors Face Rocky Start’, New York Times, 16 April, p. 1.

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