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The Corporatization of Education

Selected Writings of Kenneth J. Saltman

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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The Corporatization of Education

Selected Writings of Kenneth J. Saltman

By: 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 perspectives, and ranges in scope across the discipline, while at the same time translating crucial concepts in an accessible writing style. In this timely collection, Saltman introduces 11 of his most influential writings across his career with new contextual information for each piece. The volume is framed by a new introduction and conclusion by the author, which re-examine the scope of his work, discuss the larger development of the field over time, and considers what is still to be done. This important work will be crucial to researchers and graduate students in Education courses, particularly within Educational Foundations, Sociology of Education, and Education Policy Studies. The book’s interdisciplinary nature means that it will also be highly beneficial for those studying or researching within Sociology, Communications, and Politics.

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The Disaster of Resilience

Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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The Disaster of Resilience

Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

The past decade has seen a vast expansion of resilience pedagogies, policies, and products in public education, from the Every Student Succeeds Act to social and emotional learning to grit. Educational apps, avatars, and games as well as behaviorist techniques, meditation programs, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber schools, education brokers, global democracy promotion companies, and dropout recovery firms promise schools resilience to disaster and disruption. The Disaster of Resilience shows how resilience discourse is interwoven with the new digital directions of educational privatization. Saltman argues that resilience has provided the justification for new educational profiteering, creating a climate which individualizes collective responsibilities, depoliticizes and dehistoricizes knowledge and curriculum, and falsely grounds its politics in a mashup of pseudoscience and human capital theory. He argues that we must replace resilience discourse with pedagogies and curriculum that allow students not only to endure the intolerable conditions they find themselves in, but to see beyond those conditions and to act collectively on the social, economic, and racial injustices that created them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Alienation of Fact

Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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The Alienation of Fact

Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

An investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency. Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective agency unravels. The Alienation of Fact explains the educational, technological, and ideological preconditions for these contemporary crises of truth and agency and explores the contradictions and competing visions for the future of education that lie at the center of the problem. Schools are increasingly reimagined as businesses, and high-stakes standardized testing and curricula, for-profit charter schools, and the rise of educational AI put capital and technology at the center of education. Yet even as our society demands measure, data, and facts, politicians and news outlets regularly make unfounded assertions. How should we make sense of the contradictions between the demand for radical data-driven empiricism and the flight from evidence, argument, or theoretical justification? In this critical investigation of the new digital directions of educational privatization—AI education, adaptive learning technology, biometrics, the quantification of play and social emotional learning—and the politics of the body, Saltman shows how the false certainty of bodies and numbers replaces deliberative and thoughtful agency in a time of increasing precarity. A distinctive contribution to scholarship on public school privatization and educational technology, politics, policy, pedagogy, and theory, The Alienation of Fact is a spirited call for democratic education that values creating a society of “thinking people” over capitalistic gains.

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The Corporatization of Education

Selected Writings of Kenneth J. Saltman

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Selected Writings of Kenneth J. Saltman

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Failure of Corporate School Reform

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Failure of Corporate School Reform

By: 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 illustrates, the failures of corporate school reform are far greater and more destructive than they seem. Left unchecked, corporate school reform fails to challenge and in fact worsens the most pressing problems facing public schooling, including radical funding inequalities, racial segregation, and anti-intellectualism. But it is not too late for change. Against both corporate school reformers and its liberal critics, this book argues for the expansion of democratic pedagogies and a new common school movement that will lead to broader social renewal.

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The Politics of Education

A Critical Introduction

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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The Politics of Education

A Critical Introduction

By: 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, and gender. Noted scholar Kenneth Saltman introduces contemporary educational debates and seriously considers views across the political spectrum from the vantage point of critical education, emphasizing schooling for broader social equality and justice. Updates to this second edition work through contemporary reform debates that include topics such as the reauthorization of ESEA, race and diversity, standardized testing and common core, and classroom technology. With opportunities for readers to engage in deeper discussion through Questions for Further Discussion and a Glossary of key terms, The Politics of Education remains a much-needed, accessible primer, providing the critical tools needed to make sense of the current politics of education.

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The Edison Schools

Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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The Edison Schools

Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win support despite being unsupported by empirical evidence. Kenneth J. Saltman details how, under the guise of innovation, cost savings, and corporate social responsibility, new and massive neoliberal educational privatization schemes have been widely adopted in the United States. From a trillion-dollar charter school bubble to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to celebrities branding private schools, Saltman ultimately connects such schemes to the country’s current crisis of truth and offers advice for resistance. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452961042

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Scripted Bodies

Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Scripted Bodies

Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control. Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understood in relation to the broader economic, political, and cultural forces that have produced an increasingly authoritarian society. This book details how these new forms of corporeal control shut down the possibility of public schools developing as places where thinking becomes the organizing principle needed to contribute to a more equal, just, and democratic society.

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1317199324

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Capitalizing on Disaster

Taking and Breaking Public Schools

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Capitalizing on Disaster

Taking and Breaking Public Schools

By: 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 millennium, this privatization project looked moribund as both the Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe foundered. Nonetheless, privatization is back. The new face of educational privatization replaces public schooling with EMOs, vouchers, and charter schools at an alarming rate. In both disaster and nondisaster areas, officials designate schools as failed in order to justify replacement with new, unproven models. Saltman examines how privatization policies such as No Child Left Behind are designed to deregulate schools, favoring business while undermining public oversight. Examining current policies in New Orleans, Chicago, and Iraq, Capitalizing on Disaster shows how the struggle for public schooling is essential to the struggle for a truly democratic society.

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Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism

Contemporary Dialogues

By: Jeffrey R. Di Leo,Henry A. Giroux,Sophia A McClennen,Kenneth J. Saltman

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Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism

Contemporary Dialogues

By: 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 education in America under the dual shadows of neoliberalism and terrorism. Through collaborative and individual essays, the authors provide a provocative account that will be of interest to anyone who concerning with the opportunities and dangers facing the future of education at this critical moment in history.

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1317255593

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Strange Love

Or how We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

By: Robin Truth Goodman,Kenneth J. Saltman

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Strange Love

Or how We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

By: Robin Truth Goodman,Kenneth J. Saltman

Seeks to answer the question of how varied cultural forms--in this case, curricula, multicultural literature, and popular films--educate the public ideologically. Interrogates the relationship between the political economy of globalization and the new human rights imperialism and the cultural politics that educate the public into complicity with it through such narratives as family, war, politics, privatization, and innocence. [Introduction].

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742516350

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Collateral Damage

Corporatizing Public Schools-- a Threat to Democracy

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Collateral Damage

Corporatizing Public Schools-- a Threat to Democracy

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Sifting through a range of incidents, this book reveals how the rising corporatisation of public schools needs to be understood as part of a broader attack on the public sector.

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Toward a New Common School Movement

By: Noah De Lissovoy,Alexander J Means,Kenneth J. Saltman

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Toward a New Common School Movement

By: 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 redistribution of control over social life-that is, the enclosure of the global commons. This condition requires far more than a liberal defense of public schooling. It requires recovering elements of the radical progressive educational tradition while generating a new language of the common suitable to the unique challenges of the global era. Toward a New Common School Movement traces the history of struggles over public schooling in the United States and provides a set of ethical principles for enacting the commons in educational policy, finance, labor, curriculum, and pedagogy. Ultimately, it argues for global educational struggles in common for a just and sustainable future beyond the crises of neoliberalism and predatory capitalism.

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The Alienation of Fact

Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers

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Melmon and Morrelli's Clinical Pharmacology

Basic Principles in Therapeutics

By: Kenneth L. Melmon,Howard F. Morrelli,George Carruthers

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Melmon and Morrelli's Clinical Pharmacology

Basic Principles in Therapeutics

By: Kenneth L. Melmon,Howard F. Morrelli,George Carruthers

-- Perfect for the student, primary care practitioner, and pharmacist who needs both basic and clinical information to apply therapeutics-- A new overview chapter -- plus practical steps required for optimal therapeutic decisions-- Coverage of newly emerging advances in therapeutics-- A new look at cost/benefit analysis of therapy-- Increased emphasis on drug interactions, and much more.

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The Edison Schools

Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Disaster of Resilience

Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering

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Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering

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Scripted Bodies

Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education

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Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education

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Collateral Damage

Corporatizing Public Schools-- a Threat to Democracy

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Corporatizing Public Schools-- a Threat to Democracy

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Sifting through a range of incidents, this book reveals how the rising corporatisation of public schools needs to be understood as part of a broader attack on the public sector.

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The Politics of Education

A Critical Introduction

By: Kenneth J. Saltman

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A Critical Introduction

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Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism

Contemporary Dialogues

By: Jeffrey R. Di Leo,Henry A. Giroux,Sophia A McClennen,Kenneth J. Saltman

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Contemporary Dialogues

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Strange Love

Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

By: Robin Truth Goodman,Kenneth J. Saltman

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Strange Love

Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

By: Robin Truth Goodman,Kenneth J. Saltman

As Junk Bond felon Michael Milken attempts to transform public education on the model of the HMO, he is hailed in the mainstream press as having "done more to help mankind than Mother Theresa." Even as BP Amoco, a notorious U.S. polluter, is charged with funding and arming paramilitaries in Colombia, it freely distributes science curricula that portrays itself as a loving protector of citizens from a dangerous and 'out of control' nature. These as well as many other examples abound as Professors Robin Truth Goodman and Kenneth J. Saltman take on the corporate educators, media monopolies, and oil companies in their new book Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market. Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so Goodman and Saltman reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon education and also show how battles over culture, language, and the control of information are matters of life, death, and democracy.

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