Public School

Inner city middle school student Kenny Wright imagines himself as a superhero-but when he faces peer pressure and bullying, can he find his strength in real life? Kenny Wright is a kid with a secret identity. In his mind, he's Stainlezz Steel, super-powered defender of the weak. In reality, he's...

In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America's broken education system in order to fix it. Whether or not you have...

Efforts to address inequities within our schools tend to ignore the underlying beliefs that sustain injustices, and focus instead on short-lived policies and practices. This book takes a different approach to eradicating educational disparities. Drawing on more than 40 interviews with teachers, principals, and district leaders, Manya C. Whitaker offers educators guidance for leading a school or district grounded in social justice that centers teachers - not just teaching practices - and that focuses on the belief systems that shape decision-making.

Aurelian Academy gave Kael Voss one day to leave. He died before the deadline. For three years, Kael trained beside students destined for powerful classes. When his own assessment finally arrived, the System called him defective. Nullclass. No future. Clear your room. A forbidden ward was supposed to offer another answer. Instead, it killed him—and put him in reach of a dead woman with an offer of her own. [CLASS: WRAITHBOUND] Mira remembers skills nobody alive can teach him. She can show him how to cross a room through shadow, spot an opening in a swordsman’s guard, and survive ...

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. In the Deep South and northern border states over the decades following Brown, Black schools were illegally closed and Black educators were displaced en masse. By engaging with the complicated legacy of the Brown decision, Leslie T. Fenwick illuminates a crucial chapter in education history.

Decades ago, we systematically removed religious education from the public school day. LifeWise Academy is bringing it back. During School Hours is the two-part (true) story of how it's happening right now. Part 1 investigates WHY religious education was removed from public schools, the unintended consequences of its removal, and why reinstalling it is a game-changer for future generations. Part 2 shows exactly HOW LifeWise Academy is doing it now - bringing Bible education to public school students During School Hours.

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools. Diane...

This "provocative and personally searching"memoir follows one mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors. From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her...

If America's public schools don't survive the COVID-19 pandemic, it won't just be due to the virus. Opponents of public education have long sought to dismantle our system of free, universal, and taxpayer-funded schooling. But the present crisis has provided them with their best opportunity ever to realize that aim.  

The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America. Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and...

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Kael Voss survived being Aurelian Academy’s most dangerous student. Now the academy wants to decide who owns him. His forbidden class is public. The noble houses know his name. And the faculty tribunal that let him stay gave him a new designation. SPECIAL ASSET. He still has lessons to attend. He also has a security escort, restricted access, and orders forbidding him from binding another Wraith. Two dead students already share his mind. Four more fragments remain unclaimed. At least one would rather fight him than be found. Warden Castellan considers that an excellent reason to lock Kael...

Instant New York Times Bestseller A love letter to the rookie in all of us: Singer-actor Joshua Bassett's fearless memoir in verse about surviving the darkest moments of fame, addiction, and mental health struggles—and finding hope on the other side. "We're all figuring it out as we go along...

An investigative study of the far-right’s attack on education and an on-the-ground look at the parent activist battle, on either side of the debate, to control the future of public schools For well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of...

An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the...

He answered the dead. Now something older is answering back. Kael Voss carries four dead students in his head, and he has learned to ask before he borrows their skills. The thing beneath Aurelian's foundations does not ask. It speaks through all four of them at once, politely, in Kael's own voice, and it says two words: Come down. The seal holding it back is failing, one point at a time. The council gives Kael twenty-one days to prepare a descent through a door of pale stone, to find the fifth of the six who were sacrificed three hundred years ago. She is still down there, and she is still ...

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and...

His father told him not to come. He went anyway. Kael Voss has five dead students in his head, a seal under his academy that is failing one step at a time, and a two-word letter from a man he was told had drowned: Don't come. The letter came from Ashmere, six days south, a house with warm rooms, good bread, and no locks on any door. The people who run it are kind. They have kept his father there for thirteen years, and they have a reason they believe in. To get inside, Kael must put his own name in the Order's book, and names in that book do not come out again. On the road he has a ...

Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures - they're an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings.