Education Reform

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    • Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement
    • Auteur(s): Neil Kraus
    • Narrateur(s): Todd Curless
    • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Fantasy Economy challenges the basic assumptions of the education reform movement of the last few decades.

    Prix courant: 31,27 $

    • The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
    • Auteur(s): Tressie McMillan Cottom
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 8 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials....

    Prix courant: 35,74 $

  • Prix courant: 13,12 $

    • Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
    • Auteur(s): Arthur Levine, Scott J. Van Pelt
    • Narrateur(s): Perry Daniels
    • Durée: 9 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a historical, cross-industry perspective, they perform a survey of American higher education....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
    • Auteur(s): Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 8 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform....

    Prix courant: 20,49 $

    • Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
    • Auteur(s): Justin Reich
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Michael Summerer
    • Durée: 8 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Failure to Disrupt, Justin Reich delivers a sobering report card on the latest supposedly transformative educational technologies. Reich takes listeners on a tour of MOOCs, autograders, computerized "intelligent tutors", and other educational technologies....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America's Most Controversial Education Reform Movement
    • Auteur(s): Jon Hale
    • Narrateur(s): Wolf Williams
    • Durée: 8 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • Educational Leadership for Justice
    • Auteur(s): Manya C. Whitaker
    • Narrateur(s): Julienne Irons
    • Durée: 8 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Efforts to address inequities within our schools tend to ignore the underlying beliefs that sustain injustices, and focus instead on short-lived policies and practices. This book takes a different approach to eradicating educational disparities....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

  • Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
    • Auteur(s): Paul Lockhart
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
    • Durée: 2 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today....

    Prix courant: 13,00 $

    • Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
    • Auteur(s): Keith A. Mayes
    • Narrateur(s): Terrence Kidd
    • Durée: 13 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin Herold
    • Narrateur(s): Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith
    • Durée: 13 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • Auteur(s): E.D. Hirsch Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Fields
    • Durée: 12 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • A Warrior's Life from Black Power to Education Reform
    • Auteur(s): Howard Fuller, Lisa Frazier Page
    • Narrateur(s): Howard Fuller
    • Durée: 10 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This book tells the story of one man's life journey into the heart of the struggle to reform the nation's schools. Fuller has always believed that it is important for poor and working class Black people to gain access to the levers of power dictating their lives....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • Getting Education Reform Back on Track
    • Auteur(s): Gerald N. Tirozzi
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Whitten
    • Durée: 6 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From one of the largest organizations of public school principals, this book exposes many misguided school-reform initiatives that are negatively impacting students and educators across the country, and recommends ways to make them more effective....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
    • Auteur(s): Robert P. Moses, Charles E. Cobb Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Langston Darby
    • Durée: 8 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning
    • Auteur(s): Jack Schneider, Ethan L. Hutt
    • Narrateur(s): Rudy Sanda
    • Durée: 7 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Our primary assessment technologies don't actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. In Off the Mark, Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt explain how we got into this predicament, why we remain beholden to outmoded forms of assessment, and what we can do to change course.

    Prix courant: 21,92 $

    • Reform and Reaction in the American University
    • Auteur(s): Louis Menand
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 4 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Louis Menand examines what professors and students might be better off without while assessing what is worth saving....

    Prix courant: 23,14 $

    • Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
    • Auteur(s): Robert M. Gates
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 8 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
    • Auteur(s): Josh Cowen
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 6 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.

    Prix courant: 22,26 $