Books by Kenneth J. Saltman
Kenneth J. Saltman is the author, editor, and co-editor of books on educational policy, privatization, democracy, technology, critical pedagogy, and cultural politics. His books examine how public education is shaped by markets, corporations, philanthropy, militarization, crisis, digital platforms, and struggles over democratic life.
Recent Books
AI Schools and the New Child Labor
Cambridge University Press, 2026
The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction, Third Edition
Routledge, 2025
Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts: The Drug Attention Industrial Complex in Education
Bloomsbury, 2025
The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering
Bloomsbury, 2023
The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers
MIT Press, 2022
Educational Policy, Privatization, and Reform
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance
University of Minnesota Press, 2018
The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition
Routledge, 2018
Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education
Routledge, 2016
The Failure of Corporate School Reform
Routledge, 2012
The Gift of Education: Public Education and Venture Philanthropy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Disaster, Democracy, and Schooling
Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools
Routledge, 2007
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
Routledge, 2007, editor
Earlier Works
The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
Routledge, 2005
Strange Love: Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, with Robin Truth Goodman
Collateral Damage: Corporatizing Public Schools, A Threat to Democracy
Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
Edited Volumes and Handbooks
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Approaches to the Politics and Policy of Education
Routledge, 2022, co-edited with N. Nguyen
The Wiley Handbook of Global Education Reform
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, co-edited with Alexander J. Means
Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools, Second Edition
Routledge, 2010, co-edited with David A. Gabbard
The Critical Middle School Reader
Routledge, 2005, co-edited with E. R. Brown
Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools
Routledge, 2003, co-edited with David A. Gabbard
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