Education Reform

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    • The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
    • De: Leslie T. Fenwick
    • Narrado por: Deanna Anthony
    • Duración: 7 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-15-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 calificaciones
    • In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals....

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    • Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
    • De: Martha C. Nussbaum
    • Narrado por: Tamara Marston
    • Duración: 5 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 calificaciones
    • In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education....

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    • A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
    • De: Christopher Zara
    • Narrado por: Christopher Zara
    • Duración: 8 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-16-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • In this “sometimes painful, always compelling story of a high-school dropout” (Peter Goldman), Christopher Zara breaks down his winding journey from dropout to journalist and the impact that his background had in the world of privilege....

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    • The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
    • De: Tressie McMillan Cottom
    • Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Duración: 8 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-31-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 calificaciones
    • 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....

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    • The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
    • De: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrado por: Dean Robertson
    • Duración: 10 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-09-05
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 calificaciones
    • Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens....

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    • A Teaching Manifesto
    • De: Kevin M. Gannon
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 5 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-18-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Radical Hope is an ambitious response to this state of affairs, at once political and practical - the work of an activist, teacher, and public intellectual grappling with some of the most pressing topics at the intersection of higher education and social justice....

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    • Better Schools for LGBTQ Students
    • De: Michael Sadowski, Kevin Jennings - foreword
    • Narrado por: Daniel Henning
    • Duración: 7 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-26-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities....

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    • The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It, Second Edition
    • De: Shelly Tochluk
    • Narrado por: Karen White
    • Duración: 15 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • Witnessing Whiteness invites listeners to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues....

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    • Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
    • De: Laura Meckler
    • Narrado por: Debi Tinsley, Laura Meckler
    • Duración: 14 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-22-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • Nearly every community in America has confronted questions of race, integration, and equity. Few have made a name for themselves like Shaker Heights, Ohio....

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    • Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
    • De: James M. Lang
    • Narrado por: Caitlin Davies
    • Duración: 8 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-20-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 calificaciones
    • Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions - which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems....

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    • Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
    • De: Robert M. Gates
    • Narrado por: George Newbern
    • Duración: 8 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-19-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 390 calificaciones
    • 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....

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    • Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
    • De: Alfie Kohn
    • Narrado por: Alfie Kohn
    • Duración: 6 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-16-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 calificaciones
    • Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework - that it promotes higher achievement, "reinforces" learning, and teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience....

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    • De: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
    • Narrado por: Anna Fields
    • Duración: 12 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-15-05
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 calificaciones
    • Our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn....

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    • How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
    • De: Daniel Golden
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
    • Duración: 13 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-10-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 calificaciones
    • Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game....

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    • Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
    • De: Keith A. Mayes
    • Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
    • Duración: 13 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-24-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century....

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    • Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World
    • De: Yong Zhao
    • Narrado por: Emily Zeller
    • Duración: 6 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-27-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • 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....

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    • How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
    • De: Daniel Golden
    • Narrado por: Nancy Linari
    • Duración: 14 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 calificaciones
    • With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original reporting, The Price of Admission is a must-listen - for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions and those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans....

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    • A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
    • De: Zoe Burkholder
    • Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
    • Duración: 12 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-11-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only - or even always the dominant - civil rights strategy....

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    • How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
    • De: Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Duración: 8 h y 1 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-04-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 calificaciones
    • Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform....

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    • A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
    • De: Leslie Valiant
    • Narrado por: Rachel Perry
    • Duración: 7 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-16-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future.

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