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  • A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight backIn the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    In the "vigorous, well-informed" ( Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do away with public education."Cut[ing] through the rhetorical fog surrounding a host of free-market reforms and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Education Wars

    A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual

    An “invaluable guide” (Forbes) to understanding and winning the fight for our public schools“Essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of public education in the United States.” —Heather McGhee, bestselling author of The Sum of UsOur public schools are on the front lines of a fierce battle. In communities across the nation, heated culture wars have erupted—threatening to undermine ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Education Wars

    A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual

    An "invaluable guide" ( Forbes) to understanding and winning the fight for our public schools"Essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of public education in the United States." —Heather McGhee, bestselling author of The Sum of UsOur public schools are on the front lines of a fierce battle. In communities across the nation, heated culture wars have erupted—threatening to undermine ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Test Scores

    A Better Way to Measure School Quality

    When it comes to sizing up America’s public schools, test scores are the go-to metric of state policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the “best” schools. Yet ample research indicates that standardized tests are a poor way to measure a school’s performance. It is time—indeed past time—to rethink this system, Jack Schneider says.Beyond Test Scores reframes current ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Off the Mark

    How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)

    Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning.Anyone who has ever crammed for a test, capitulated to a grade-grubbing student, or fretted over a child’s report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Allagash River Towboat

    A Maine Logging Adventure

    Back in the days of the lumberjack and river drive, supplies and equipment were moved up Maine's most remote river by towboats - large, wooden barge-like vessels - which were towed upriver by horses or oxen on the shore. In this story, eleven-year-old Ben takes the trip of a lifetime when he accompanies his Uncle Horace on one of the last towboat trips up Maine's wild Allagash River. Along the way ... Leer más

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    The Education Wars

    A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual

    Completo

    4 hora

    A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schoolsCulture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations of public education. What's behind these efforts? Why are our schools suddenly so vulnerable? And how can the millions of Americans who love their public ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    Completo

    7 hora 33 minutos

    A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight back.If America's public schools don't survive the COVID-19 pandemic, it won't just be due to the virus. Opponents of public education have long sought to dismantle our system of free, universal, and taxpayer-funded schooling. But the present crisis has provided them with their best ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Off the Mark

    How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning

    Narrado por Rudy Sanda ...

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    7 hora 30 minutos

    Anyone who has ever crammed for a test, capitulated to a grade-grubbing student, or fretted over a child's report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended consequences. As experts agree, our primary assessment technologies—grading, rating, and ranking—don't actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. Worse, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Dark Money

    The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

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    16 hora 54 minutos

    Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against “big ... Leer más

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Leer más

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