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  • A Guide To The SEND Code of Practice [Updated for 2016/17]

    by Douglas Silas ...
    "The guide that the Government should have written, but didn’t!"Now updated for 2016/17, this is the comprehensive guide to the Special Educational Needs & Disability Code of Practice 2014 and new SEN framework, which came into force in September 2014.From award-winning Douglas Silas, a solicitor specialising exclusively in special educational needs, it includes and links to all relevant ... Read more

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    The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

    by Diane Ravitch ...
    From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library Journal), The Language Police (“Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is ... Read more

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  • Conform

    Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

    by Glenn Beck ...
    Series series The Control Series
    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, 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.Public education is never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it was an issue for state and local governments—not the federal one.It’s not a ... Read more

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  • Tested

    One American School Struggles to Make the Grade

    by Linda Perlstein ...
    The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores.To see if this world is producing better students, Linda ... Read more

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  • Three Strikes and You’re Out!

    The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law

    by Mike Reynolds, Bill Jones, Dan Evans ...
         This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.      It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering by consistently soft-on-crime, liberal politicians in an effort to eviscerate the law, and it’s the story of the ultimate ... Read more

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  • Yale & The Ivy League Cartel — How a College Lost its Soul and Became a Hedge Fund

    by Edwin S. Rockefeller ...
    The book reviews the development of "Old Yale" from its origin in 1701 to its death in the latter half of the 20th century, describes the Ivy League Cartel that prevents price competition among members and makes possible persistent price increases, and explains how the cartel has been preserved by skillful lawyering and political support of the academic establishment. ... Read more

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  • Disinherited

    How Washington Is Betraying America's Young

    by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Jared Meyer ...
    Tens of millions of Americans are between the ages of 18 and 30. These Americans, known as millennials, are, or soon will be, entering the workforce. For them, achieving success will be more difficult than it was for young people in the past.This is not because they are less intelligent, they have worked less hard, or they are any less deserving of the American dream. It is because Washington made ... Read more

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  • Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law

    by Beverley H Johns ...
    When you're teaching students who have special needs, what are your legal responsibilities? How can you provide appropriate, legally compliant special education services—and avoid pitfalls that could lead to due process hearings and court dates? Turn to this interactive quick guide for concise, accessible answers. The antidote to thick, cumbersome legal volumes, this book gives educators and ... Read more

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  • The Normal Accident Theory of Education

    Why Reform and Regulation Won’t Make Schools Better

    by Andrew K. Milton ...
    Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called ‘reform’ discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about the nuances and realistic limitations in the institutional order of school.This book argues that as ... Read more

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  • Common Core Meets Education Reform

    What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling

    by Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane ...
    How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings together prominent scholars and policy analysts to examine the pressing issues that will mark Common ... Read more

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  • Making the Unequal Metropolis

    School Desegregation and Its Limits

    by Ansley T. Erickson ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the ... Read more

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  • Early Childhood Governance

    Choices and Consequences

    Edited by Sharon L. Kagan, Rebecca E. Gomez ...
    Responding to the current national concern for enhanced commitments to early education, this book examines what states are currently doing, what has proven effective, and what the existing body of knowledge offers educators, policymakers, and others seeking successful approaches to governance. Featuring chapters by prominent, thoughtful scholars and practitioners, this is the first volume to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD