This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. "Schools or Markets?"

Contents: A. Molnar, Foreword. Preface. C. VanderSchee, The Privatization of Food Services in Schools: Undermining Children's Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education. L. Trammell, Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling: The ExxonMobile Agenda for Education. R. Hewitt, Priming the Pump: "Educating" for Market Democracy. D.A. Breault, Jesus in the Temple: What Should Administrators Do When the Marketplace Comes to School? B. Weiss, Teachers, Unions, and Commercialization. J. Block, Children as Collateral Damage: The Innocents of Education's War for Reform. B. Baez, Private Knowledge, Public Domain: The Politics of Intellectual Property in Higher Education. G.A. Miller, The Two-Way Street of Higher Education Commodification. L. Stultz, Egocentrism in Professional Arts Education: Toward a Discipline-Based View of Work and World. L. Wilson, Controlling the Power Over Knowledge: Selling the Crisis for Self-Serving Gains. D. Boyles, The Exploiting Business: School Business Partnerships, Commercialization, and Students as Critically Transitive Citizens.