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“michael casserly”

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  • The Enduring Promise of America’s Great City Schools

    by Michael Casserly ...
    A sober yet encouraging look at how urban public schools have confronted challenges, defied expectations, and continued to improve ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Reign of Error

    The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

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    From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library Journal), The Language Police (“Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Death and Life of the Great American School System

    How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

    by Diane Ravitch ...
    An urgent case for protecting public education, from one of America's best-known education expertsIn this landmark book, Diane Ravitch - former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum - examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Test

    Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don't Have to Be

    by Anya Kamenetz ...
    "[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -- New York Times Book ReviewThe Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized testing. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the YearIn this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Testing Charade

    Pretending to Make Schools Better

    by Daniel Koretz ...
    For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does that mean in practice?High-stakes tests. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Got Schooled

    The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap

    by M. Night Shyamalan ...
    In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools.Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • More Than a Score

    The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing

    by Diane Ravitch ...
    "Jesse Hagopian brought a rare moment of truth to the corporate-dominated Education Nation show when he spoke on behalf of his colleagues at Garfield High in Seattle. He instantly became the voice and face of the movement to stop pointless and punitive high-stakes testing."—Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of TerrorIn cities across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Building More Effective Unions

    by Paul F. Clark ...
    Employers have long turned to behavioral science for guidance on making their organizations more effective. Labor scholar Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should also take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in this field, and he offers a straightforward account of how they can do so.Much of the behavioral science research relevant to unions relies on complex statistical analyses and is ... Read more

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  • Reinventing America's Schools

    Creating a 21st Century Education System

    by David Osborne ...
    **From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education.In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Show Me the Evidence

    Obama's Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy

    by Ron Haskins, Greg Margolis ...
    The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of six-spanning preschool and K-12 education, teen pregnancy, employment and training, health, and community ... Read more

    $32.39 USD