Privatization of America's Public Institutions

The Story of the American Sellout

By: Lawrence Baines

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eBook | 27 September 2022 | Edition Number 1

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Privatization of America's Public Institutions describes the transformation of the military, K-12 public schools, public universities and colleges, and prisons into enterprises focused on generating profits for a select few. In many cases, privatization has limited accessibility, promoted segregation, fueled declining standards, increased costs, and reduced quality.

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"Kudos to Lawrence Baines for this gracefully clear, readable, and often astonishing explanation of significant connections among recent radical transformations of US military, correctional, and educational practices by means of intense corporate commercialization, often at the expense of the common good. Privatization of America's Public Institutions offers critical understanding of complex, fundamental, and ethically troubling US cultural change to which educated citizens have too little access. It offers deep insight into what is at stake for our nation's future in the taken-for-granted movement to privatize our most vital public institutions." Susan Laird, Past President, American Educational Studies Association, Center for Leadership Ethics and Change