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Author
Series
Tuttle twins volume 10
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several years in school begging graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are bet educated, the Tuttle family decides to embark on a new learning adventure.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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 Chu also noticed troubling new behaviors, and discovered...
3) 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.
Language
English
Description
"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgant call for a completely reimagined American education, so that we equip students for the realities of our twenty-first century society and economy. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examines some of the problems that plague the American public school system, identifies solutions that have worked in the past, and celebrates the hero teachers, staffers, and administrators the author met as the Obama Secretary of Education. --
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, American Indian Movement (AIM) organizers in Minneapolis and St. Paul and local Native parents came together to start their own community school. While AIM is best known for its national protests and political demands, the survival schools foreground the movement's local and regional engagement with issues of language, culture, spirituality, and identity....
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We've all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great? Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great. Is it a matter of natural-born charisma? Or does exceptional teaching require something more? Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art....
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