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1) The negative impact of politics on literacy: the importance of self-esteem for reading achievement
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 149 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Correct instructional level and self-esteem have never been fully addressed in public education. Principals and teachers who read the guidelines in this book and combine these simple requirements -- without additional monies -- can make American public education number one worldwide in literacy."--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took a trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to prepare students for a world marked by innovation -- but America's teachers one-upped him. All across the country, he met teachers in ordinary settings doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children learn deeply and joyously...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This book makes recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States, including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits, and unbalanced energy consumption. America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In this book the authors analyze those challenges, globalization, the revolution in information technology, the...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Education for Empire examines how American public schools created and placed children on multiple and uneven paths to "good citizenship." These paths offered varying kinds of subordination and degrees of exclusion closely tied to race, national origin, and US imperial ambitions. Public school administrators, teachers, and textbook authors grappled with how to promote and share in the potential benefits of commercial and territorial expansion, and...
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Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 ressource en ligne (xiv, 244 pages).
Language
English
Description
"The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this year, the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 45 states will bring an unprecedented level of new, more difficult, and longer mandatory tests to nearly every classroom in the nation up to five times a year--forcing our national testing obsession to a crisis point. Taxpayers are spending extravagant...
10) Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A "comprehensive look at today's American public schools that argues persuasively against those who claim our public school system is broken, beyond repair, and obsolete; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the rising "privatization movement" draining students--and funding--from our public schools, a book that puts forth a detailed plan of what needs to happen to schools and with public policy to insure the survival of this American institution...
Author
Publisher
Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"#1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail. As he did with the issue of gun control in his thoughtful and succinct #1 bestseller Control, Glenn Beck uncovers the politically motivated truth behind the continual failures of the American educational system and offers...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, eagerly anticipated exploration (past and present) of white supremacy in the teachings of our national education system, its depth, breadth, and persistence-and how, through generations of our nation's most esteemed educators and textbooks, racism has been insidiously fostered-North and South-at all levels of learning. . In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xii, 478 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate. In it the author takes a look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children, and points the way to reversing that failure. It is filled with unexpected twists and turns, takes us...
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