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1. Schooling and the Politics of Disaster

   Edited by 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,...

   Published May 23rd 2007 by Routledge
2. The Edison Schools

   Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education

   By Kenneth J. Saltman

   Series: Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture

   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....

   Published January 29th 2005 by Routledge