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The Corporate Assault on Youth (Adolescent Cultures, School & Society)

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This anthology is honest about what it's purpose is: it attempts to examine the presence of the corporation in education. It succeeds. The book offers a nice stimulus for conversations on topics that might go untouched and actions that might go undone in the course of a typical undergraduate teacher education program. The reader is left with a sense of disastrous crisis in the field and topics with which to begin conversations about it.

One-third of the book's content has been previously published in other periodicals. Two were published three years before the book, and one was published one year before the book. The introduction espouses that "these chapters represent many different viewpoints on the effects of neoliberalism on youth," and also states, "[t]hey each urge for a critical response to this development." The introduction closes with the claim that "powerful ideologues" seek to abolish "the democratic ethos the United States is purportedly based upon." The book is a masterfully diverse exploration within these contexts.