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  • School Communities of Strength

    Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty

    An evidence-based plan of action to achieve educational justice for K–12 public school students from families whose income is 50% or more below the US poverty threshold ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Preparing For Power

    America's Elite Boarding Schools

    Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prepschool life and underlife. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Expect Miracles

    Charter Schools And The Politics Of Hope And Despair

    "Cookson and Berger provide a thoughtful summary and insightful critique of the charter school movement. Expect Miracles explodes the myth that the charter schools operating in an educational 'marketplace' will recast public education to better serve America's children and promote democratic civic values. Anyone interested in the future of U.S. school reform should read this book." —Alex Molnar, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Class Rules

    Exposing Inequality in American High Schools

    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the “Great Equalizers.” In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolescents undergo different class rites of passage depending on the social-class composition of the high school they attend. Drawing on stories of schools and individual students, the author shows that where a student goes to high school is a major ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sacred Trust

    A Children’s Education Bill of Rights

    *"*Sacred Trust: A Children′s Education Bill of Rights is a clarion call to action for all Americans who care deeply about children and public education. Peter Cookson cuts through the endless policy debates and presents a positive plan for building 21st century public schools for all children."—Richard W. Riley, Former U. S. Secretary of EducationSenior Partner, EducationCounsel, LLC, Washington, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Educating Elites

    Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

    The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "down" toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    School Communities of Strength

    Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty

    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 46 min

    In School Communities of Strength, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata, and particularly for the five million American children who live with the extreme material hardship known as deep poverty. This work issues an urgent call to action for K–12 schools to put in place the policies, practices, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life

    “Brigid Schulte is a vital voice on the future of work, and her carefully researched book lights the way to fewer hours, less stress, and more meaning.”―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the podcast WorkLifeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Overwhelmed, a deeply reported exploration of why American work isn’t working and ... Read more

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

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  • Reign of Error

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

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    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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  • Going Solo

    The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

    With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience.Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even ... Read more

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  • Build, Innovate and Grow

    My Vision for Our Country

    Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction. Our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar. Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means... This is a fundamental challenge we must overcome, for a nation or a country without a clear worldview simply cannot become a prosperous and powerful one. The book 'Build Innovate ... Read more

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