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Enabled by Schools, Students Are Under Constant Surveillance by Marketers

May 17, 2016

How to Create and Maintain Civil Society Space

Policy Memo

Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger

September 18, 2015

On the Block: Student Data and Privacy in the Digital Age

Research Brief

Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger

April 9, 2015

Schoolhouse Commercialism Leaves Policymakers Behind

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Ken Libby, and Joseph Fogarty

March 11, 2014

Promoting Consumption at School: Health Threats Associated with Schoolhouse Commercialism

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Michael D. Harris, Ken Libby, and Joseph Fogarty

April 18, 2013

The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education

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Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker

October 9, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cash Incentives to Improve Schooling

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Larry Cuban

October 30, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Get Tech Out of Classrooms - Some Parents Say (Jessica Grose) (Guest Post by Jessica Grose)

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Jessica Grose and Larry Cuban

May 15, 2024

Education Technology Society: Digital Technologies and the Commercialism of Education

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Neil Selwyn and Faith Boninger

April 9, 2024

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Sam Wineburg: The Lies That Advertisers Tell Students

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Diane Ravitch

January 22, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Trouble with Social-Emotional Learning: Why Be Concerned? Here’s Why!

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Nancy Bailey

May 26, 2022

Code Acts in Education: Google Magic

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Ben Williamson

April 12, 2022

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Murky World of i-Ready, Grading, and Online Data

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Nancy Bailey

March 17, 2022

Naked Capitalism/Our Schools: How Corporations Use Public School Workforce ‘Pipelines’ to Harvest Students’ Data and Train Narrowly Skilled, Exploitable Staff

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Yves Smith, Jeff Bryant, and Velislava Hillman

March 8, 2022

Don’t Go ‘Along’ With Corporate Schemes to Gather up Student Data

Resource Document

Faith Boninger and Alex Molnar

March 1, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Charters and Vouchers to Destroy Virginia’s Public Schools Will Involve Questionable Data Collected on Children

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Bailey

February 3, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Pandemic Learning Loss Reports That Sell Online Programs Are Harmful for Students with Disabilities

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Nancy Bailey

August 17, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Pandemic Privatization and Digitalization in Higher Education

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Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan

March 12, 2021

Curmudgucation: School Marketing Is a Thing -- But Not a Good One

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Peter Greene

December 17, 2020

Code Acts in Education: Edtech Index Investing

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Ben Williamson

September 29, 2020

Issues to Consider Before Adopting a Digital Platform or Learning Program

Policy Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Michael K. Barbour

September 24, 2020

Samuel E. Abrams

The Commercial Transformation of America’s Schools

Resource Document

Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger

September 21, 2020

Hack Education: 'Luddite Sensibilities' and the Future of Education

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Watters

September 14, 2020

Hack Education: Building Anti-Surveillance Ed-Tech

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Audrey Watters

August 20, 2020

Curmudgucation: Report: Zuckerberg’s Favorite Digital Ed Program is All Sizzle, No Steak

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Peter Greene

August 12, 2020

Worlds of Education: "The Edtech Pandemic Shock", by Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan

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Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan

July 31, 2020

New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform

Resource Document

Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

June 25, 2020

Answer Sheet: New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

June 25, 2020

Hack Education: Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

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Audrey Watters

May 18, 2020

Code Acts in Education: Edtech, Coronavirus, and Commercialization in Public Education

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Ben Williamson

May 8, 2020

Code Acts in Education: New Pandemic Edtech Power Networks

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Ben Williamson

April 14, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Science of Reading Plot to Replace Reading Teachers with Phonics on a Screen

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Nancy Bailey

February 27, 2020

Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You

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Jeff Bryant

February 26, 2020

Curmudgucation: Ed Tech Giant Powerschool Keeps Eating the World

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Peter Greene

December 9, 2019

Code Acts in Education: Platform Teachers

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Ben Williamson

November 22, 2019

Code Acts in Education: EdTech Resistance

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Ben Williamson

October 1, 2019

Curmudgucation: Can Personalized Learning Deliver

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

May 28, 2019

How Corporate Interests Are Overtaking Well-Intentioned Goals of Personalized Learning

Resource Document

Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

April 30, 2019

Answer Sheet: How Corporate Interests are Overtaking Well-Intentioned Goals of Personalized Learning

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Faith Boninger, and Alex Molnar

April 30, 2019

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