Coding Kids
Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools
$45.01
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and Apple. Many educators and parents would object if Exxon wrote their school’s climate curriculum—or if schools assigned nutrition lessons from Coca-Cola and McDonald’s. Yet today, tech giants influence nearly every step of the education supply chain. They provide the classroom devices and software many students use to do assignmen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393881943 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0393881946 |
| Author: | Natasha Singer |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Coding Kids reveals how tech corporations positioned themselves as education saviors…. Natasha Singer shows how urgency to incorporate AI in education has been carefully manufactured–through glossy curricula, philanthropic branding, and policy pressure–to secure corporate power, not student opportunity.–Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology
Coding Kids reveals how the new norms surrounding educational technology came into being–and who benefits from the push to get every student to study computer science. (Hint: It’s not the kids.) This is a must-read for parents, educators, and policymakers.–danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Essential reading. Natasha Singer’s Coding Kids is the best possible introduction for an urgent and necessary conversation about the ways technology reshapes reality.–Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation
Natasha Singer
Natasha Singer has covered tech industry influence in schools for the New York Times for more than a decade. Her school tech reporting helped prompt California to enact a landmark student online data protection law. In 2019, she was part of a Times team whose tech coverage won a George Polk Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting.
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