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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "public" and "private." This book describes how, more than a century ago, public policies fostered the rise of modern school choice. In the late nineteenth century, American Catholics began constructing rival, urban parochial school systems, an enormous undertaking that challenged public school systems' near-monopoly of education. In a nation committed to public...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The author delves into a promising mystery, challenging critics of public schools in America: Why did student learning climb for two decades in Los Angeles, which has the nation's second-largest public school district? The author discovers a colorful and pluralist politics of the city that sparked a variety of institutional reforms and yielded gains for students and teachers alike"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with black communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the history of philanthropy-one of the...
26) Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The teachers are back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students first day of school. Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. Meanwhile, Ava runs a side hustle out of the school parking lot, and Gregory, now a full-time teacher, is in over his head with the curriculum.
Author
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The book outlines the historical, political and pedagogical reality of growing segregation and racial isolation in America's 21st century public schools. It explores the dialectic between the philosophies of inclusion and exclusion, examining an underlying contradiction: public education that continually postures to be ever more inclusive while simultaneously perpetuating an exclusive system through systematized discrimination to maintain inequality....
30) Charlie Bartlett
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the occasional prescription to other students in need. Along...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This project explores the teacher strikes of the late 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the strikes reflect the tensions of a liberal vision that could no longer afford to sustain the promise of economic opportunity. The manner in which the state provides education to its citizens has been a major political battleground for much of American history given that education is a fundamental facet of everyday life as well as the single-most expensive expenditure...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, after the passing of Brown v Board, one county in southern Virginia chose to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those public schools stayed closed for five years. This was the reality of the people of Prince Edward County. When the affluent white population of Prince Edward County built a private school-for white children only-they left Black children and their families with very few options. Some Black children were home schooled...
39) Forget me not
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As three-year-old Emilio prepares to start school, his family finds itself embroiled in the challenge all too common for children with disabilities, to secure the right to inclusive education. Cornered in one of the most segregated education systems, New York City public schools, filmmaker Olivier and his wife Hilda turn to the camera on themselves and their child with Down Syndrome as they navigate a system originally designed to silo children with...
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