@article {Sloan:2008:0022-0272:555,
title = "The expanding educational services sector: neoliberalism and the corporatization of curriculum at the local level in the US",
journal = "Journal of Curriculum Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/tcus",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2008",
volume = "40",
number = "5",
publication date ="2008-10-01T00:00:00",
pages = "555-578",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0022-0272",
eissn = "1366-5839",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/tcus/2008/00000040/00000005/art00001",
doi = "doi:10.1080/00220270701784673",
keyword = "educational policy, curriculum, neoliberalism, accountability, school reform",
author = "Sloan, Kris",
abstract = "This study analyses and describes the links between the curriculum policies of one urban school district in the US and an intervention by the economics firm Standard & Poor's (S&P). It characterizes the languages and values introduced to the district leadership by S&P as ideologically neoliberal. This school-level case study that makes clear the connections between the introduction of neoliberal languages and values, local-level curriculum policies, and the resulting experiences of teachers and children in the US. In the end, it offers a case study of the ways corporate forces, such as S&P, are extending their reaches beyond national and state-level policy bodies to local communities to further legitimize the neoliberal project and to 'reform' schools in ways that grow their own profitability.",
}