Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education, Paperback - Douglas N. Harris

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The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District explores and criticizes the contemporary educational reforms of the New Orleans public sc...

Description2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) FinalistA timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and ...

DescriptionIn Diverse Families, Desirable Schools, Mira Debs offers a richly detailed study of public Montessori schools, which make up the largest...

At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a rob...

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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Kenneth M. GoldIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 315Collection: History of Schools and ...

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This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment.

A leading expert on public bioethics advocates for a new conception of human identity in American law and policy. The natural limits of the human b...

Is the American public school doing what we want it to do? Or, is what we want it to do in conflict with what society allows it to do? This book ta...

A complete overview of watercolour painting in the Waldorf curriculum.

Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City ...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Reducere. Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America's most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of biza...

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Reducere. Award NameParents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007)Award categoryApprovedDiscover how a game of lacrosse led to a victory for the Ojibwatribe again...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

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Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

Part two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from M...

Reducere. In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis...

Reducere. The Language of School design is a seminal work because it defines a new graphic vocabulary that synthesizes learning research with best practice i...

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Reducere. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

Reducere. In his new book, John P. Hopkins examines recent efforts to reform Indigenous education in public schools. Hopkins centers his critique on Montana ...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan DuFresneThe History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools is a book intended to challenge the authority of t...

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Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...