DeVos, Betsy
Summary: "In Hostages No More, DeVos unleashes her candid thoughts about working in the Trump administration, recounts her battles over the decades to put students first, hits back at "woke" curricula in our schools, and details the reforms America must pursue to fix its long and badly broken education system. And she has stories to tell: DeVos offers blunt insights on the people and politics that stand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 DEVMeier, Deborah
Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEIRavitch, Diane
Summary: "An in-depth look at the failed efforts to privatize public schools and the victories of those who have fought to save America's public school system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.01 RAVKozol, Jonathan
Summary: "An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 KOZBerkshire, Jennifer
Summary: "A guide to the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 371.01 BERSchneider, Jack
Summary: "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door is about the right-wing agenda to dismantle public education, assessing the myriads of ways our education system is being eroded with privatization measures that exacerbate inequality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 SCHChu, Lenora
Summary: China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system is held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence. Chu, an American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. Enrolling three-year-old Rainer in China's state-run public school system, the immediate results were positive. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 370.951 CHUMoskowitz, Eva S.
Summary: "Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as the founder and leader of Success Academy Charter Schools, one of the country's most highly regarded networks of schools, but while most people know Eva for her success in educating 20,000 mainly low-income students who are routinely accepted to our nation's best universities, she has also been responsible for raising three children of her own....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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Newman, Katherine S.
Summary: "In No Shame in My Game, anthropologist Katherine Newman presents a view of inner-city poverty radically different from that commonly accepted. The all-too-prevalent picture we get of the poor today - in the media, in the political sphere, and in scholarly studies - is of alienated minorities living in big-city ghettos, lacking in values and family structure, criminally inclined, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 NEWSander, Richard Henry
Summary: Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired in posturing, concealment, and pork-barrel earmarks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.26 SANSilverman, Robyn J. A.
Summary: "What do you do when your child comes to you with a question about anxiety, death, divorce, beauty, or race? Poised to become the quintessential conversation resource for parents, How to Talk to Kids About Anything provides powerful words, actionable steps, inspiring real-life stories, and pivotal advice to tackle these difficult conversations with kids. Dr. Robyn Silverman of the How to Talk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 SILSummary: Practical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations of the contributors forge a critical and transformative analysis of race, gender, and higher education leadership. With insights from humanities, social sciences, art, and STEM, this essential resource helps to redefine the academy to meet the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 DEAdeBoer, Fredrik
Summary: "In order to move toward a more egalitarian society, the American education system must be reformed to account for genetic differences between individual academic abilities. All groups, all races, and all genders are created equal. Not all individuals are. The Cult of Smart is a provocative and groundbreaking discussion of human potential, a topic which, in recent times, has been corrupted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 DEBScalia, Antonin
Summary: "By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary life. A Supreme Court justice for three decades, he transformed the way that judges and lawyers think about the law. Married to his beloved Wife, Maureen, for more than fifty years, a father to nine children, and a grandfather to dozens, he was devoted to his family and his faith. He was gregarious, energetic, and a friend to people of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2017