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Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2008
A company that runs one of the nation's largest networks of online schools recently decided to discontinue a program that arranged for high school teachers in the United States to send their students' English essays to India for evaluations by reviewers there. The existence of the program by Herndon, Virginia-based K12 Inc. is an example of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Electronic Publishing, Elementary Secondary Education, Confidentiality
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Molnar, Alex – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
This essay reviews the history of school commercialization in the USA and the forms that it has taken over time, with particular attention paid to research measuring the scope and variety of commercialization trends in US public schools. The implications of commercialization activities such as those that promote the consumption of nutritionally…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Public Education, Public Schools, Privatization