Social Reform

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    • What Works and Why
    • De: Paul Tough
    • Narrado por: Paul Tough
    • Duración: 3 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-12-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 calificaciones
    • Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, Paul Tough provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood adversity....

    Precio regular: $10.32

    • Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World
    • De: Yong Zhao
    • Narrado por: Emily Zeller
    • Duración: 6 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-27-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? by award-winning writer Yong Zhao offers an entertaining, provocative insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both "the best and worst" in the world....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • How Human Creativity Remakes the World
    • De: David Eagleman, Anthony Brandt
    • Narrado por: Mauro Hantman
    • Duración: 6 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-17-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 calificaciones
    • Our ability to remake our world is unique among all living things. But where does our creativity come from, how does it work, and how can we harness it to improve our lives....

    Precio regular: $14.22

    • Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
    • De: James M. Lang
    • Narrado por: Caitlin Davies
    • Duración: 8 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-20-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 calificaciones
    • Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions - which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education
    • De: Luke Rosiak
    • Narrado por: Charles Constant
    • Duración: 9 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-08-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 236 calificaciones
    • In Race to the Bottom, Luke Rosiak uncovers the shocking reason why American education is failing: Powerful special interest groups are using our kids as guinea pigs in vast ideological experiments....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Insights and Inspiration from Teachers Across America
    • De: Ted Dintersmith
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 8 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-24-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 calificaciones
    • Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, What School Could Be provides a realistic, and profoundly optimistic, roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • A Vision for Economic Empowerment & True Democracy
    • De: Bernard Keynes
    • Narrado por: Virtual Voice
    • Duración: 3 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • A Bold Blueprint for a New Era of Economic Power & Democracy The United States is at a crossroads. Decades of growing income inequality, corporate ...

    Precio regular: $5.99

    • Better Schools for LGBTQ Students
    • De: Michael Sadowski, Kevin Jennings - foreword
    • Narrado por: Daniel Henning
    • Duración: 7 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-26-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Safe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
    • De: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrado por: Amanda Carlin
    • Duración: 13 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-21-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
    • De: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrado por: Bob Johnson
    • Duración: 10 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-27-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • My Fight to Change Policing in America
    • De: Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld
    • Narrado por: Edwin Raymond
    • Duración: 10 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-17-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 calificaciones
    • The highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history takes a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform.

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
    • De: Robert P. Moses, Charles E. Cobb Jr.
    • Narrado por: Langston Darby
    • Duración: 8 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-30-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy
    • De: Stephen Moore, Arthur B. Laffer
    • Narrado por: Adam North
    • Duración: 8 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-30-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 101 calificaciones
    • In Trumponomics, conservative economists Stephen Moore and Arthur B. Laffer offer a well-informed defense of the president's approach to trade, taxes, employment, infrastructure, and other economic policies....

    Precio regular: $14.99

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education
    • De: Richard K. Vedder
    • Duración: 8 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-05-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • An urgent warning that colleges and universities are accomplishing less at the same time that they cost students and taxpayers more than ever before; with a startling solution that we should let the free market decide each college’s fate.

    Precio regular: $19.24

    • The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
    • De: Phoebe Zerwick
    • Narrado por: Sean Crisden
    • Duración: 9 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-10-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • In June 1985, a young Black man named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Preparing Our Kids for the New Innovation Era
    • De: Tony Wagner, Ted Dintersmith
    • Narrado por: Holter Graham
    • Duración: 9 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-18-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 441 calificaciones
    • From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical reimagining of American education....

    Precio regular: $19.49

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