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  • Disrupting Disruption

    The Steady Work of Transforming Schools

    by David Kirp, Marjorie Wechsler, Madelyn Gardner, Titilayo Tinubu Ali ...
    Disrupting Disruption shows how three racially and ethnically diverse school districts--Union NJ, Union City OK, and Roanoke City VA--have defied the demographic odds, boosting overall graduation rates while shrinking or eliminating the opportunity gap. These districts resemble many others in their student population. What makes them distinctive is their relentless focus on developing and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Education Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David Kirp, Kevin Macpherson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    A compelling overview of the major debates in contemporary education policy. In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy--from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. These battles are being waged against a backdrop of shifting demographics, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The College Dropout Scandal

    by David Kirp ...
    Higher education today faces a host of challenges, from quality to cost. But too little attention gets paid to a startling fact: four out of ten students -- that's more than ten percent of the entire population - -who start college drop out. The situation is particularly dire for black and Latino students, those from poor families, and those who are first in their families to attend college. In ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Kids First

    Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future

    by David Kirp ...
    While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping, and reenergizing public support for children, and offers inspiring, on-the-ground accounts of five big cradle-to-college ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

    Cross-National Perspectives

    by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, John Hawkins, Ka Ho Mok, Rick Wolff, Miri Amit, Pamela Blackmon, Josiah A. M. Cobbah, Steven J. Diner, Judith Naomi Friedlander, Gaele Goastellec, John Hattie, Sue Jackson, Ki-Seok Kim, David Kirp, Noga O'Connor, Hwanbo Park, Adel Pasztor, Carol Schmid, Boaz Shulruf, Don Stewart, Charles Tien, Sarah Tumen, Adrian Ziderman ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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    The Education Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by David Kirp, Kevin Macpherson ...
    Narrated by Steve Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy—from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. What's more, the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting educators to rethink the school's mission in society.In The Education Debate, nationally recognized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook