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.
