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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate.
Author
Publisher
Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"#1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail"--
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Hostages No More, DeVos unleashes her candid thoughts about working in the Trump administration, recounts her battles over the decades to put students first, hits back at "woke" curricula in our schools, and details the reforms America must pursue to fix its long and badly broken education system. And she has stories to tell: DeVos offers blunt insights on the people and politics that stand in the way of fixing our schools. -- Provided by the publisher....
10) School choice and the betrayal of democracy: how market-based education reform fails our communities
Author
Series
Rhetoric and democratic deliberation volume 26
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Examines political calls for market-based education reform and explores the efforts of public-school advocates to build democratically spirited connections between schools and communities"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics After nearly four decades of labour quiescence, the US was hit by a wave of strikes in early 2018. Educators in Oklahoma, Arizona and beyond walked off their jobs to demand increased school funding and better pay. Confounding all expectations, these actions erupted in Republican-dominated states with weak unions, bans on public sector strikes, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book argues that the current conversation about affirmative action and college admissions omits a key dimension: the conditions of racial inequality that students and their families experience from early childhood through high school, and which continue throughout postsecondary education. The moment of matriculation is part of a much longer process that begins in homes, schools, and communities, which prepares some students well and leaves others...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change. Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took an unprecedented trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, eagerly anticipated exploration (past and present) of white supremacy in the teachings of our national education system, its depth, breadth, and persistence-and how, through generations of our nation's most esteemed educators and textbooks, racism has been insidiously fostered-North and South-at all levels of learning. . In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated...
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