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Saltman, Kenneth J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2016
Educational publishing corporations and media corporations in the United States have been converging, especially through the promotion of standardization, testing, and for-profit educational technologies. Media and technology companies--including News Corp, Apple, and Microsoft--have significantly expanded their presence in public schools to sell…
Descriptors: Publishing Industry, Mass Media Role, Standards, Testing
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Helfenbein, Robert J., Jr. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2004
In order to understand the relationship between high-stakes testing and its synonymous projection on history as the "age of accountability," Stuart Hall's Policing the Crisis (Hall, Critcher, Jefferson, Clarke, & Roberts, 1978) provides an interesting parallel depiction of the response of the dominant forces in the power structure to…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Power Structure, Testing, Public Education