Background
| The Education Industry Facts: An Overview CorpWatch July 8th, 1998 Here is the information for our ''click-able'' schoolhouse. The data comes from Consumer Reports' ''Captive Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids at School.'' |
| What's on Channel 1? Center for Commercial Free Public Education July 8th, 1998 Eight Million U.S. students are required to watch Channel One -- a commercial filled current events program every day. Schools get satellite dishes, VCRs and TVs in exchange for providing a captive audience to advertisers. Check out this report from the Center for Commercial Free Public Education. |
| The CCPA Education Project by Erika Shaker, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives July 8th, 1998 Erika Shaker, an analyst with the Center for Policy Alternatives looks at the education industry's inroads in Canada. |
| Captive Kids: A Report on Commercial Pressures on Kids at School Consumer Reports January 1st, 1998 Excerpts from Consumer Reports' ground breaking study on commercialism in the schools. |
| Schools for Globalized Business: The APEC Agenda for Education by Larry Kuehn, British Columbia Teachers' Federation May 1st, 1997 Larry Keuhn, the former head of British Columbia Teachers' Federation, looks at the reshaping of education to fit the needs of global corporations by critiquing a paper prepared by South Korea's Ministry of Labor and the economic integration of the Asia-Pacific region. |
| The Commercialized Classroom by Holley Knaus, Multinational Monitor March 1st, 1992 Underfunded schools, desperate for resources, are increasingly receptive to corporate-sponsored educational materials and programs, and are ever more accepting of the associated commercialism and product promotion. ''We are paying for educational deficits by selling kids to advertisers,'' says Peggy Charren, president of the advocacy group Action for Children's Television |