Social Reform

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    • One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
    • Auteur(s): James E. Ryan
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 13 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? Find out....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World
    • Auteur(s): Yong Zhao
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Zeller
    • Durée: 6 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? by award-winning writer Yong Zhao offers an entertaining, provocative insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both "the best and worst" in the world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why You Can and Should Homeschool Your Child
    • Auteur(s): Maeve Jemison
    • Narrateur(s): Maeve Jemison
    • Durée: 9 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Today’s youth have a lot going against them as they trudge onto their school campuses. Sitting in cold, hard desks, they’re force-fed facts that quickly zap the joy of discovery right out of them.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform
    • Auteur(s): Phyllis Vine
    • Narrateur(s): Sara Sheckells
    • Durée: 15 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism....

    Prix courant: 28,28$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Reflections on a Failed Public Education System
    • Auteur(s): L. Salvatore Scarpitta
    • Narrateur(s): L. Salvatore Scarpitta
    • Durée: 17 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Can we fix the Public Education system in America? Written by an educator with broad experience spanning nearly three decades, this new book suggests that it's already too late. Education’s ongoing failures are feeding on themselves, perpetuating the failed system....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Serving Students and Saving the Schools
    • Auteur(s): Brian L Murphy
    • Narrateur(s): Derik Hendrickson
    • Durée: 4 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Brian L. Murphy's first degree was in Business Management which led to an eighteen year career, performing as an individual contributor, then a supervisor, then as a manager....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Wie wir die Verhältnisse im Kindergarten wieder vom Kopf auf die Füße stellen [How We Can Turn the Situation in Kindergarten Back onto Its Feet]
    • Auteur(s): Carsten Tergast, Susanne Schnieder
    • Narrateur(s): Sandra Ragg
    • Durée: 5 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-25
    • Langue: Allemand
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    • Das System der Kindergärten und Kindertagesstätten ist in eine Schieflage geraten: zu wenige Erzieher, zu große Gruppen von Kindern, belastende Rahmenbedingungen für Kita-Personal und Eltern....

    Prix courant: 22,02$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
    • Auteur(s): Neil Gross
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 8 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From “one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation” and a former cop, Walk the Walk is the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
    • Auteur(s): Tony Messenger
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 8 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Bill De Blasio, the NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform
    • Auteur(s): Michael Hayes
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Rameaka
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Award-winning progressive reporter Michael Hayes takes a compelling look at the NYPD’s powerful network of police unions, pro-police lawyers, and top brass who work relentlessly to shield police officers from any real accountability....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform
    • Auteur(s): Katherine Beckett
    • Narrateur(s): Wendy Tremont King
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this book, Katherine Beckett explains how and why mass incarceration persists despite growing recognition of its many failures, plummeting crime rates, and widespread efforts by state legislators and others to reduce prison populations....

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    • Real-World Wisdom for School and District Leaders
    • Auteur(s): Robin Avelar La Salle, Ruth S. Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Avelar La Salle
    • Durée: 6 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For education leaders who believe that all students deserve the premium education that only some currently experience, Shattering Inequities: Real-World Wisdom for School and District Leaders shows how your leadership can provide equitable outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Workplace
    • Auteur(s): Zaimah Khan
    • Narrateur(s): Zaimah Khan
    • Durée: 4 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Future Minded: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s Workplace delves deep into how students are being educated in a system created more than 100 years ago; a system that could not anticipate current or future jobs....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
    • Auteur(s): Dale Russakoff
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Cross
    • Durée: 8 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts - as reformers face off against entrenched unions....

    Prix courant: 35,32$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America
    • Auteur(s): Jo Napolitano
    • Narrateur(s): Dani Cervone
    • Durée: 8 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Uncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nation....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education
    • Auteur(s): Frederick M. Hess, Pedro A. Noguera
    • Narrateur(s): Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Alex Knox
    • Durée: 6 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K-12 education today - from school choice to testing to diversity to privatization....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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