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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

    $21.89 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

    $17.09 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

    $129.99 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

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  • Creative Schools

    The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

    by Lou Aronica, Sir Ken Robinson PhD ...
    A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element.Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization’s history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human ... Read more

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  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

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  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the YearIn this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child ... Read more

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  • Common Core State Standards and Race to the Top - An Introduction to Marxism 101

    by Restore Oklahoma Public Education ...
    Complete with supporting links and end notes for our reference material, our research details how the public education system is being used as a vehicle to spread Socialism and Marxism to our youth. Oklahoma is the focus, but rest assured this is happening in every state. We point out the Federally backed programs that are designed to 'fundamentally change' how our children accept and promote ... Read more

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  • Why Boys Fail

    Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind

    by Richard Whitmire ...
    This book takes a hard look at how this ominous reality came to be, how it has worsened in recent years, and why attempts to resolve it often devolve into finger-pointing and polarizing politics.The signs and statistics are undeniable: boys are falling behind in school. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the biggest culprits are not video games, pop culture, or female-dominated schools biased toward ... Read more

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