Public School Education

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    • Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education
    • By: Laura Pappano
    • Narrated by: Tracy Parsons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Journalist Laura Pappano explores the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public school education....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Gary Thomas
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Since the early Egyptians, human beings have formalized the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students....

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    • 7 Reasons to Pull Your Child from Public Schools Before It's Too Late
    • By: Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan
    • Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. They are especially poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith - ordinary families who value traditional morality and plain old common sense....

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    • Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
    • By: Justin Driver
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades....

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    • The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
    • By: Jack Schneider, Jennifer Berkshire
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways - and how to fight back....

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    • WHY and HOW LifeWise Academy is Reinstalling Religious Education into the Public School Day
    • By: Joel Penton
    • Narrated by: Joel Penton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Decades ago, we systematically removed religious education from the public school day. LifeWise Academy is bringing it back....

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    • Educational Leadership for Justice
    • By: Manya C. Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Julienne Irons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education
    • By: Arne Duncan
    • Narrated by: Arne Duncan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • “Education runs on lies. That’s probably not what you’d expect from a former Secretary of Education, but it’s the truth.” So opens Arne Duncan’s How Schools Work, or How American Schools Work for Some, Not for Others, and Only Now and Then for Kids....

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    • A New Answer for Our Broken Education System
    • By: Ron Paul
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Whether or not you have children, you know that education is vital to the prosperity and future of our society....

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    • Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School
    • By: Courtney E. Martin
    • Narrated by: Courtney E. Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • One mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors....

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    • Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
    • By: Noliwe Rooks
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks provides a critical account of the making and unmaking of public education in Cutting School....

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    • The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
    • By: Leslie T. Fenwick
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
    • By: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
    • By: Eve L. Ewing
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators
    • By: Shani Robinson, Anna Simonton
    • Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly a proxy for corporate greed....

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    • Going to School with a Thousand Kids
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district....

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    • A Guide to Survival in Science
    • By: Peter J. Feibelman
    • Narrated by: Peter J. Feibelman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find....

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    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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    • Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
    • By: Glenn Beck
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell, Glenn Beck (introduction)
    • Series: The Control, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • #1 best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US....

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    • By: Stephen Prothero
    • Narrated by: Stephen Prothero
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • We are a religiously illiterate nation, yet despite this lack of knowledge, politicians continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed or misinterpreted by the vast majority of Americans....

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