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Consuming Classrooms:
Private Interests and Public Education (part 2)
May 10, 2000
Listen/download helpPrivate companies have been moving into the realm of public education for some time now. Potential profits have been one motive, but another have been to shape public opinion through school materials. On this program we take a look at corporate involvement in student curricula.
This program includes a segment on sexist advertising in schools, which was produced by National Radio Project's Women's Desk.
Featuring:
Lizzie Cohen, a high school student in San Jose, California; Alex Molnar, Center ofr the Analysis of Commericalism in Education; Dylan Bernstein, Center for Commercial Free Public Education; Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor; John Borowski, environmental science high school teacher based in Philomath, Oregon; Kathleen deBettencourt, Environmental Literacy Council; Ann Simonton, Media Watch; Sarah Church, a high school student in Berkeley, California.
For more information:
The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education (UNPLUG)
1714 Franklin Street #100-306
Oakland, CA 94612
510-268-1100 or, 800-867-5841; fax: 510-268-1277; unplug@igc.org
www.commercialfree.org
Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
414-229-2716; cace@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/CACE
John Borowski
PO Box 483
Salem, OR
541-929-5224
Environmental Literacy Council
1730 K Street, NW, Ste 905
Washington, DC 20006-3868
202-296-0390; fax: 202-822-0991
www.enviroliteracy.org
Media Watch
PO Box 618
Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0618
831-423-6355
www.mediawatch.com
Multinational Monitor
PO Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
202-387-8030, fx: 202-234-5176; monitor@essential.org