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The Story of the Parents’ Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools

by David Hursh, Jeanette Deutermann, Lisa Rudley, Zhe Chen, Sarah McGinnis ...

A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winnerThe rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection, such as inBloom... ... Read more

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A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winnerThe rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection, such as inBloom...
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The End of Public Schools

The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education

by David W. Hursh ...

Series series Critical Social Thought
The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles in public education. By first contextualizing the privatization of education within the context of a larger educational crisis, and with particular emphasis on the Gates Foundation and influential state and national politicians, it describes how ... Read more

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The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles in public education. By first contextualizing the privatization of education within the context of a larger educational crisis, and with particular emphasis on the Gates Foundation and influential state and national politicians, it describes how
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Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

Local, National and Transnational Perspectives

by Carlos Vargas-Tamez, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan, Emily Winchip, Alison Milner, Howard Stevenson, Pamela Osmond, Keiko Yasukawa, Pia Cort, Anne Larson, Francesca Rapanà0, Marcella Milana1, Fergal Finnegan2, Jo Bates3, Katherine Quinn4, Annmarie Sheahan5, Mia Angelica Sosa-Provencio6, Shawn Secatero7, Shiv Desai8, Bob Lingard9, Zhe Chen0, David Hursh1, Christine Hall2, Pat Thomson3, Elisabeth Davies4, Rachel Heydon5, Lori Mckee6, Lyn Tett7, Rob Smith9, Gwyneth Allatt0, Vicky Duckworth1, Virginie Thériault2 ...

Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across ... Read more

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Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across
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Good Medicine and Good Music

A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography

by David Hursh, Chris Goertzen ...

Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand ... Read more

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Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand
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Teaching Environmental Health to Children

An Interdisciplinary Approach

by David W. Hursh, Camille A. Martina, Hilarie B. Davis, Michael A. Trush ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them. In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Our goal is to ... Read more

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Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them. In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Our goal is to
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Cypress Inheritance

The Beginning

by C.E. One Cypress, David Deborde ...

Series Book 1 - Cypress Inheritance
She came into the world under extreme circumstances. Vulnerable and fragile, her life began in a rundown orphanage.There weren't any reliable records about this precious baby girl, so one of the nurses cradled her, looked down at her adorable face and gave her a name... Lorna.Due to overcrowding and lack of resources, Lorna was relocated to two other orphanages, by the time she was three months ... Read more

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She came into the world under extreme circumstances. Vulnerable and fragile, her life began in a rundown orphanage.There weren't any reliable records about this precious baby girl, so one of the nurses cradled her, looked down at her adorable face and gave her a name... Lorna.Due to overcrowding and lack of resources, Lorna was relocated to two other orphanages, by the time she was three months
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Neoliberalism and Environmental Education

Edited by Joseph Henderson, David Hursh, David Greenwood ...

This timely book situates environmental education within and against neoliberalism, the dominant economic, political, and cultural ideology impacting both education and the environment. Proponents of neoliberalism imagine and enact a world where the primary role of the state is to promote capital markets, and where citizens are defined as autonomous entrepreneurs who are to fulfill their needs via ... Read more

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This timely book situates environmental education within and against neoliberalism, the dominant economic, political, and cultural ideology impacting both education and the environment. Proponents of neoliberalism imagine and enact a world where the primary role of the state is to promote capital markets, and where citizens are defined as autonomous entrepreneurs who are to fulfill their needs via
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It's All Too Much

Adventures of a Teenage Beatles Fan in the '60s and Beyond

by David Stark ...

Narrated by David Stark, Richard Buskin (Foreword #1), Lesley-Ann Jones (Foreword #2), Pete Shotton (1983 interview) ...

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7 hours 22 min

British music industry veteran David Stark grew up in north-west London during the 1960s as a dedicated Beatles fan, who was lucky enough to meet his musical heroes on various memorable occasions. From gatecrashing the Yellow Submarine film premiere in 1968 and sitting right behind them, to meeting the group individually in some extraordinary circumstances, he recalls his many Beatles encounters ... Read more

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British music industry veteran David Stark grew up in north-west London during the 1960s as a dedicated Beatles fan, who was lucky enough to meet his musical heroes on various memorable occasions. From gatecrashing the Yellow Submarine film premiere in 1968 and sitting right behind them, to meeting the group individually in some extraordinary circumstances, he recalls his many Beatles encounters
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Democratic Social Education

Social Studies for Social Change

Edited by David W. Hursh, E. Wayne Ross ...

Series series Critical Education Practice
In 1932 George Counts, in his speech "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" explicitly challenged teachers to develop a democratic, socialistic society. In Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change Drs. Hursh and Ross take seriously the question of what social studies educators can do to help build a democratic society in the face of current antidemocratic impulses of ... Read more

$68.99 USD

In 1932 George Counts, in his speech "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" explicitly challenged teachers to develop a democratic, socialistic society. In Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change Drs. Hursh and Ross take seriously the question of what social studies educators can do to help build a democratic society in the face of current antidemocratic impulses of
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The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

by Matt Andrews ...

Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

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Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered
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Mornings on Horseback

The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

by David McCullough ...

The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday ... Read more

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The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday
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Problematic Summer Romance

by Ali Hazelwood ...

**The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.**Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; ... Read more

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**The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.**Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman;
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