Economization of education: human capital, global corporations, skills-based schooling

1. Economization and corporatization of eduction -- 2. OECD : the economization of test scores -- 3. Skills : the new global currency -- 4. World Bank : "our dream is a world free of poverty" -- 5. The world economic forum : partnerships and entrepreneurship education for global businesses -- 6. Economization of the family and childhood : educating the corporate personality -- 7. The confluence of business interests, economic theories, governments, and educators : go to school to learn job skills.

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved-including measuring educational policies by their costs and economic benefits, shaping family life to ensure productive workers and high-achieving students, introducing entrepreneurship education into curricula from preschool through higher education, and increasing the involvement of economists in educational policy analysis. Close att