This revised edition of Literacy as Snake Oil further investigates and
critiques the commodification of literacy and education. Since the
publication of the first edition, schools in the U.S. have been targeted
even more as a market for private companies seeking to profit from the
surveillance of NCLB (No Child Left Behind). Three chapters have been
added: one that deals with the reproduction of racialized spaces during
a textbook adoption, an analysis of America's Choice by a classroom
teacher, and an analysis of the U.K.'s literacy strategy. This book will
inspire teachers to remember their political commitments to resist
oppression and unethical practice and find ways to subvert teacher- (and
student-) proof packages.