{"product_id":"coding-kids-big-techs-battle-to-remake-public-schools-9780393881943","title":"Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools","description":"\u003cp\u003eFourth 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 assignments. They sell schools on the latest artificial intelligence tools. And increasingly, tech companies are launching their own corporate-branded school curricula, shaping how and what millions of children learn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the tech industry has helped spread computer science and AI education in schools at astonishing speed and scale. In \u003cem\u003eCoding Kids\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e journalist Natasha Singer draws on a decade of reporting to reveal how tech titans used the promise of coding (high-paying jobs! change the world!) to weave rosy industry visions of technology into the very fabric of American education, sometimes sidelining crucial ideas like civics and critical thinking. Along the way, Singer takes readers through the powerful playbook Big Tech used to scale coding lessons nationwide. Then she shows readers how tech companies are now applying the same playbook to mainstream their AI tools in schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revelatory account of the powerful forces shaping education and our kids' futures, \u003cem\u003eCoding Kids\u003c\/em\u003e also offers hope. It tells the compelling stories of pioneering teachers fighting for a broader vision of tech education--one that not only teaches kids algorithms and app-making, but also asks students to grapple with the societal impacts of tech giants and their disruptive digital tools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393881943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Natasha Singer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801272578229,"sku":"9780393881943","price":27.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/coding-kids-big-techs-battle-to-remake-public-schools-9780393881943","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}