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(0)Diane Ravitch
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Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
2) Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
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Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Ravitch offers a reasoned argument against the rising privatization movement that's draining students and funding from the United States' public schools. She presents a detailed plan of what needs to happen to schools, and suggests public policy to insure the survival of a great U.S. institution that is so basic to democracy.
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The American Reader is a stirring anthology that celebrates our diverse and multifaceted culture in prose and verse. Through the years, these words have inspired, delighted, chastened and sometimes enraged the citizens of the United States.
The two hundred poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents in this volume were chosen both for their literary excellence and historical significance. Inspiring and eloquent, these classic...4) What do our 17-year-olds know?: a report on the first national assessment of history and literature
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A report on the results of a test of 17-year-olds' knowledge of history and literature in the United States.
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JacKlink Productions
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©2014.
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"'Rise Above the Mark' focuses on Indiana's struggles with public school reforms-the same types of struggles experienced in schools throughout the United States. Experts Diane Ravtich, Linda Darling-Hammond, Marc Tucker, Pasi Sahlberg and others discuss how America can make positive changes to provide an exceptional public school system for all children." -- Amazon.com
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Expose into charter schools operated by a mysterious cult-like group known as the Gülen Movement and the corruption behind education reform in the USA. This group operates over 170 charter schools in the USA-receiving $500 million yearly from taxpayers.
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The New Press
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2025
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2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization—and profitability—of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America "An astounding look at America's segregated school system, weaving together historical dynamics of race, class, and growing inequality into one concise and commanding...
