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corporate involvement in education  

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  • The relationship between public schooling and the economic workings of capitalist society has long been a concern of social theorists, from European neo-Marxists such as Louis Althusser and Paul Willis, to American critics of industrial/corporate capitalism like Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Martin Carnoy. Early initiatives by the business sector to reform public education usually focused on tailoring the curriculum to the needs of industry; critiques of such initiatives stressed the school's role in preparing students to be docile workers within a stratified labor market. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Corporate Involvement in Education]

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