Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education, Paperback - Noliwe Rooks

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

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Leading scholars combine theory and case studies to reveal how elite corporations are increasingly influencing how public education provision and s...

Reducere. DescriptionWith contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, Global Education Reform is an eye-openi...

The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in higher education. Th...

Reducere. In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthink...

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Reducere. Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrat...

Reducere. America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to...

Reducere. This book goes deep behind the scenes of school privatization campaigns to expose the complex networks of funding that sustain these efforts - ofte...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Nikolaos ZahariadisIllustration(s): tables, figuresNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 1995...

A SOCIALIST AGENDA RIGHT IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD Anyone who watches the headlines knows that war rages in our nation. The liberal agenda to destro...

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...

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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...

Vega Jane and the End of Time (previously published in the USA as The Stars Below) is the fourth and stunning final instalment in master storytelle...

Schooling Alone is a look at the history of public education and the current state of the efforts to privatize our public schools.

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

Reducere. Fiction. An unnamed narrator returns to her ancestral home in an environmentally depleted harbor city with a baby in her care. She has escaped from...

Reducere. DescriptionMaking Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting...

Reducere. Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the tru...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third book in the funny and joyful series Katherine Applegate has called "tender and important, " by National Book Award finalist El...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

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'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic ...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the cha...

This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, black people have ...

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"Everyone who cares about money is trying to get their heads around DeFi, and what it may mean for financial institutions. This book explains it al...

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We Are All Weird is Seth Godin's cult classic on celebrating (and marketing to) the individual, now repackaged and relaunchedWorld of Warcrafters, ...

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A heartwarming and unforgettable middle-grade debut about one boy's journey to fix his family, with the help of some unexpected friends he meets al...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Mark (Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of Vienna) CoeckelberghIllustration(s): 4 b 8 ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this thought-provoking book, Jonathan McMillan dissects banking to reveal its inner workings. He cuts through the complexity of moder...

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The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells th...

Cuba: The Mob, Castro, and the End of the Embargo, explores Cuba's complicated history and emergence from an era of economic isolation from the US....

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Douglas MurphyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost f...

This book presents a timely discussion for educational leaders, policymakers, and the interested public of how students engage subject matter.

This book presents a timely discussion for educational leaders, policymakers, and the interested public of how students engage subject matter.

Reducere. In this prophetic, millennial work, written by Russia's greatest philosopher at the end of the last century, the great task facing humanity as prog...