Kenneth J. Saltman

With this book, Kenneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the centre of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardised tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates. Saltman describes the material stakes in what he calls the education drugs attention...

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 behaviourist techniques, meditation programmes, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber schools, education brokers, global...