Molnar, Alex

Alex Molnar is a professor of education policy and director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University. He has published numerous articles on social and educational policy and practice. For the past several years, he has studied and written about commercial activities in the schools and market-based school reforms such as private school vouchers, charter schools, and for-profit schools. Molnar has a B.A. in history, political science, and education; two masters degrees, one in history and one in social welfare; a Specialist's Certificate in educational administration; and a Ph.D. in urban education.

E-mail Professor Molnar at: alex.molnar@asu.edu

Publications

Title	Year
Policy and Statutory Responses to Advertising and Marketing in Schools	2010
Click: The Twelfth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends: 2008-2009	2009
Profiles of For-Profit Educational Management Organizations: 2008-2009	2009
Marketing of Food in Schools: Little Educational or Nutritional Content	2009
At Sea in a Marketing-Saturated World: The Eleventh Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends: 2007-2008	2008
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: 2007-2008	2008
The Privatization Infatuation	2008
Adrift: Schools in a Total Marketing Environment. The Tenth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends: 2006-2007	2007
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: 2006-2007	2007
Truthiness in Education	2007
A National Survey of the Types and Extent of the Marketing of Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Schools	2006
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: 2005-2006	2006
The Ninth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends: 2005-2006	2006
Empty Calories: Commercializing Activities in America's Schools	2005
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: 2004-2005	2005
School Commercialism and Adolescent Health	2005
Cashing in on the Classroom	2004
Data on Charters Lacking	2004
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: 2003-2004	2004
Reform Florida	2004
Virtually Everywhere: Marketing to Children in America's Schools	2004
Class-Size Reduction: A Fresh Look at the Data	2003
Low Pay + Big Classes = Teacher Crisis	2003
No Student Left Unsold	2003
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: 2002-2003	2003
Recruiting, Preparing and Retaining High Quality Teachers: An Empirical Synthesis	2003
SAGE Advice: Research on Teaching in Reduced-Size Classes	2003
Teaching Practices for Smaller Classes	2003
Testimony on AZ's Desegregation Funding Mechanism Prepared for Presentation to the Sunset Review Comm. of the AZ Legislature	2003
Parents, Are You Aware of the Commercialism Activity in Your School? You Should Be.	2003
Research Worth Knowing	2003
School Commercialism, Student Health, and the Pressure to Do More With Less	2003
Sold Out: Corporate Marketing in America's Schools	2003
The Commercial Assault on Children and the School Environment	2003
Media Impact of Think Tank Education Publications 2001	2002
Professional Development Needs of Teachers in SAGE Classrooms	2002
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Companies: 2001-2002	2002
School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence	2002
Tuition Tax Credits Can't Be Credited for Helping Poor	2002
What's in a Name? The Corporate Branding of America's Schools	2002
Commercializing Schools: A Threat to Our Children's Health	2002
Salem-Keizer School District and Pepsi Pouring Rights	2002
The Corporate Branding of Our Schools	2002
Buy Me! Buy Me!	2001
Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program, 2000-2001	2001
Let the Buyer Beware	2001
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Companies: 2000-2001	2001
School Vouchers: The Law, the Research, and the Public Policy Implications	2001
The Media and Educational Research: What We Know vs. What the Public Hears	2001
Buy Me! Buy Me!	2001
Companies and Organizations Involved in Schoolhouse Commercializing Activities	2001
Corporate Involvement in Schools: Time for a More Critical Look	2001
Commercials as Curriculum	2000
Commercialism@School.com	2000
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Companies: 1999-2000	2000
Voucher and Class-Size Research	2000
Colonizing Our Future: The Commercial Transformation of America's Schools	2000
Looking for Funds in All the Wrong Places	2000
ZapMe! Linking Schoolhouse and Marketplace in a Seamless Web	2000
Cashing in on Kids	1999
Educational Vouchers: A Review of the Research	1999
Integrating the Schoolhouse and the Marketplace: A Preliminary Assessment of the Emerging Role of Electronic Technology	1999
Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Companies: 1998-1999	1999
School Chartering Processes: Academic Accountability Issues	1999
Student Achievement Smaller Classes and Educational Vouchers: A Research Update	1999
Unfinished Business in Milwaukee	1999
Chronology of Edison Project Funding	1999
The Commercial Transformation of American Public Education	1999
Alex Molnar's Testimony to the Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus	1998
Smaller Classes–Not Vouchers–Increase Student Achievement	1998
Sponsored Schools and Commercialized Classrooms	1998
The Hidden Costs of Channel One: Estimates for the 50 States	1998
The Real Lessons of Milwaukee's Voucher Experiment	1997
Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment	1996