Meier, 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 MEISummary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHADuncan, Arne
Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUNRavitch, 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 RAVSummary: A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family God's 2016Martin, Courtney E.
Summary: "From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for long walks, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the street from her Oakland home. She learned that White families in their gentrifying neighborhood largely avoided the majority-Black, poorly-rated school. As she began asking why, a journey of a thousand moral miles began. Learning in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 MARRavitch, Diane.
Summary: Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.1 RAVGoldstein, Dana
Summary: A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GOLMurray, Charles A.
Summary: The controversial author of "The Bell Curve" returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education. He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should confront to precipitate change--that ability varies, that half of the children are below average, that too many people are going to college, and that America's future depends on how we educate the academically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 MURBlack, Derek W.
Summary: "We are in the midst of a full-scale attack on our nation's commitment to public education. From funding, to vouchers, to charter schools, public education policy has become a political football, rather than a means of fulfilling the most basic obligationof government to its citizens. As Derek W. Black vividly illustrates, this assault threatens not just public education, but democracy itself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.01 BLALaSalle, Lillian
Summary: Looks at the career of unconventional educator Pedro Santana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Stewart, Katherine.
Contents: The Good News Club comes to town -- All part of the plan -- A wall of separation -- The originalists' new theory -- Little red church-house -- Thy neighbor's children: the 4/14 window -- Don't know much about history: the Texas textbook wars -- Bible "literacy" wars -- Packaging proselytizing as education -- The peer-to-peer evangelism loophole -- Enlisting in the army: how to join the Good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.28 STEGoodlad, John I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-HIll Book Co. 1983
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Do American schools adequately prepare students to take part in society? Can a complacent, ill-informed public trace its problems back to the nation's classrooms? This program examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on the ability of public education to involve students in civic and governmental processes. Filmed in economically and culturally diverse schools, the program includes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Are advocates of the intelligent design theory really creationists in disguise? To what extent has the I.D. argument widened America's cultural divide? And if a clear winner emerges, who loses? This program thoroughly examines those questions, describing the theory's quasi-scientific origins and documenting the Pennsylvania court battle over teaching I.D. in biology classes. A historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Confronting one of the most complex and potentially divisive issues on the American cultural landscape, this ABC News program examines the intellectual and political forces that support the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. The video focuses on the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank that has generated widespread enthusiasm-and criticism-for making I.D. part of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Berkshire, 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 BERSummary: Myths, misconceptions, and the march of time have obscured the true origins and legal details of Brown v. The Board of Education. This fascinating program connects viewers with the people, places, events, and ideas that shaped the landmark civil rights case. Interviewees include Cheryl Brown Henderson, daughter of lead plaintiff Oliver Brown; Zelma Henderson, who, until her death in 2008, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Schneider, 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 SCHYared, Christine A.
Summary: "Gerry Crane had hit his stride. A talented high school music teacher, he was loved by students and parents--lauded as one of the best teachers at his school. Gerry had reconciled his conservative religious upbringing with his identity as a gay man, finding an affirming spiritual home in a local church. He enjoyed a close circle of loving friends and had found the love of his life. In October...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penning History, LLC 2021