Kenneth Saltman

Dr. Kenneth J. Saltman is a professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. His work in educational policy and politics and the sociology of education focuses on the possibilities for public schools to be sites of democratic renewal and just social transformation. He is an outspoken critic of public school privatization and corporatization. His recent books include Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools, The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education, and The Gift of Education: Pubilc Education and Venture Philanthropy.