Education Reform

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    • One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
    • De: David M. Kennedy
    • Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
    • Duración: 13 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-09-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 calificaciones
    • Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country....

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    • A Teaching Manifesto
    • De: Kevin M. Gannon
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 5 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-18-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Radical Hope is an ambitious response to this state of affairs, at once political and practical - the work of an activist, teacher, and public intellectual grappling with some of the most pressing topics at the intersection of higher education and social justice....

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    • A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth
    • De: Christopher Zara
    • Narrado por: Christopher Zara
    • Duración: 8 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-16-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • In this “sometimes painful, always compelling story of a high-school dropout” (Peter Goldman), Christopher Zara breaks down his winding journey from dropout to journalist and the impact that his background had in the world of privilege....

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    • Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
    • De: Ryann Liebenthal
    • Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
    • Duración: 10 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-10-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • An urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis.

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    • America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed
    • De: Mel Levine M.D.
    • Narrado por: Mel Levine M.D.
    • Duración: 5 h
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-27-02
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 calificaciones
    • Different minds learn differently. That's an issue for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy...

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    • The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It, Second Edition
    • De: Shelly Tochluk
    • Narrado por: Karen White
    • Duración: 15 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • Witnessing Whiteness invites listeners to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues....

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    • What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
    • De: Pasi Sahlberg, Howard Gardner - foreword, Ken Robinson - afterword
    • Narrado por: Phil Thron
    • Duración: 11 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-04-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. This Grawemeyer Award-winning book continues to influence education policies globally....

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    • Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
    • De: Martha C. Nussbaum
    • Narrado por: Tamara Marston
    • Duración: 5 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 calificaciones
    • In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education....

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    • Leadership Failures and Their Toll on Student Success
    • De: Douglas Sims
    • Narrado por: Virtual Voice
    • Duración: 7 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-02-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Why Higher Education is Failing—and How We Can Save It Higher education and corporate America have more in common than you might think. In ...

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    • The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
    • De: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrado por: Dean Robertson
    • Duración: 10 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-09-05
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 calificaciones
    • Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens....

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    • De: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
    • Narrado por: Anna Fields
    • Duración: 12 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-15-05
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 calificaciones
    • Our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn....

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    • How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement
    • De: Karin Chenoweth
    • Narrado por: Sara Sheckells
    • Duración: 8 h y 50 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-15-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth's most inspiring and compelling book yet—an essential listen for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status....

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    • Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing
    • De: Alfie Kohn
    • Narrado por: Alfie Kohn
    • Duración: 6 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-16-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 calificaciones
    • Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework - that it promotes higher achievement, "reinforces" learning, and teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience....

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    • 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today’s Students
    • De: Connor Boyack, Corey DeAngelis
    • Narrado por: Connor Boyack
    • Duración: 4 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-01-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned, “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”

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    • The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
    • De: Jeffrey J. Selingo
    • Narrado por: Fred Stella
    • Duración: 9 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-07-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 371 calificaciones
    • In College (Un)Bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo, editor at large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that America’s higher education system is broken....

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    • Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
    • De: Robert M. Gates
    • Narrado por: George Newbern
    • Duración: 8 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-19-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 390 calificaciones
    • From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale....

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    • How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
    • De: Daniel Golden
    • Narrado por: Nancy Linari
    • Duración: 14 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 calificaciones
    • With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original reporting, The Price of Admission is a must-listen - for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions and those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans....

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    • The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
    • De: Michael Walsh
    • Narrado por: Michael Walsh
    • Duración: 8 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-29-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 calificaciones
    • In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world's premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority....

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    • Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World
    • De: Michael D. Smith
    • Narrado por: Bill Anciaux
    • Duración: 5 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-04-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies....

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