March 18, Friday, 7pm
Join us at Revolution Books, 1103 N. Ashland Ave, Chicago
Author Kenneth Saltman discusses The Gift of Education: Public Education and Venture Philanthropy. Kenneth Saltman is Associate Professor of Education at DePaul University. Previous books include Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools. The Gift of Education is the first book to dissect how the new “venture philanthropy” is contributing to both the privatization and transformation of public schooling on the model of corporate culture – from charter schools to the remaking of teacher education, to making students into consumers and knowledge into commodities.
Prof. Saltman will read from his book, take questions, and sign books.