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  • THE CORPORATIZATION OF EDUCATION
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Kenneth J. Saltman is a defining voice within Education, and for 25 years he has worked to uncover the ways in which public education has been impacted by corporatization and neoliberalism, and to demonstrate what educators and citizens can do to reclaim the democratic purpose of schooling. His work is unique in the way that it bridges a number of traditions, theoretical perspe...

    $1,120.00

  • HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL APPROACHES TO POLITICS AND POLICY OF EDUCATION
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    The Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education provides a broad overview of educational policy and politics from critical perspectives engaging with both foundational and cutting edge topics. In critical perspectives, educational policy debates and programs for reform are about more than narrow questions of efficacy say to raise test scores or for simpl...

    $3,200.00

  • CAPITALIZING ON DISASTER
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, Capitalizing on Disaster dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ventures. At the beginning of the mil...

    $1,560.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM, EDUCATION, AND TERRORISM
    JEFFREY R. DI LEO / HENRY A. GIROUX / SOPHIA A MCCLENNEN / KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues is a collaborative effort among four established public intellectuals who deeply care about the future of education in America and who are concerned about the dangerous effects of neoliberalism on American society and culture. It aims to provide a clear, concise, and thought-provoking account of the problems facing edu...

    $1,380.00

  • TOWARD A NEW COMMON SCHOOL MOVEMENT
    NOAH DE LISSOVOY / ALEXANDER J MEANS / KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Toward a New Common School Movement is a bold and urgent call to action.The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.Toward a New Common School Movement suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader re...

    $1,280.00

  • FAILURE OF CORPORATE SCHOOL REFORM
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as Kenneth Saltman powerfully argues in this new book, corporate school reforms have decisively failed to deliver on what their proponents have promised for two decades: higher test scores and lower costs. As Saltman illust...

    $1,280.00

  • EDUCATION AS ENFORCEMENT
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced. Since publication of the first edition, these trends have increased to disturbing levels as a result of the extensive militarization of civ...

    $1,540.00

  • SCHOOLING AND THE POLITICS OF DISASTER
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Indonesia, the United States and around the globe, disaster is increasi...

    $1,380.00

  • THE EDISON SCHOOLS
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time? Revealing how...

    $1,100.00

  • THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION
    KENNETH J. SALTMAN
    The Politics of Education provides an introduction to both the political dimensions of schooling and the politics of recent educational reform debates. The book offers undergraduates and starting graduate students in education an understanding of numerous dimensions of the contested field of education, addressing questions of political economy, class, cultural politics, race, a...

    $1,240.00