Social Reform

Liste de produits
    • How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
    • Auteur(s): Cathy N. Davidson
    • Narrateur(s): Carolyn Cook
    • Durée: 11 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past - and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • 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 $

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • 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 $

    • An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
    • Auteur(s): David Flink
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Wayne
    • Durée: 6 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • An innovative, comprehensive guide - the first of its kind - to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children....

    Prix courant: 22,13 $

    • 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 $

    • A Captivating Guide to a Period in American History Filled with Political Reforms and Social Activism (U.S. History)
    • Auteur(s): Captivating History
    • Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
    • Durée: 3 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Progressive Era, a time of social, political, and economic reform in the United States, spanned the years 1877 to 1929—the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression....

    Prix courant: 15,10 $

    • 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 $

    • 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
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    • 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 to Leverage Disruptive Innovation to Heal America's Biggest Industry
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Webb
    • Narrateur(s): Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Durée: 8 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Despite being the wealthiest nation on earth, the United States spends much of its health-care money and resources pursuing the wrong goal: curing people after they get sick. Webb charts a bold new path that puts the focus not on reactionary treatment, but on anticipation and prevention....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It
    • Auteur(s): LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
    • Narrateur(s): LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
    • Durée: 12 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • How Washington Is Destroying American Indians
    • Auteur(s): Naomi Schaefer Riley
    • Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The tragedy of our Indian policies demands reexamination immediately - not only because they make the lives of millions of American citizens harder and more dangerous....

    Prix courant: 32,92 $

    • Resistance to Change in Higher Education
    • Auteur(s): Brian Rosenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Gabriel Vaughan
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-05-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It,” president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform.

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • 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 $

    • 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
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    • 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 $

    • 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 $

  • Prix courant: 7,02 $

    • Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade, H. Richard Milner IV - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A leading scholar-practitioner and ardent proponent of culturally responsive forms of education, Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade aims to settle the debates over whether we should work toward a public education system built on the goal of equality....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $