Social Reform

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    • How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
    • De: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrado por: Eliza Foss
    • Duración: 14 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-05-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 calificaciones
    • America's foremost historian of education renounces her support for reform policies implemented over the past decade that she says are wrecking America's cherished tradition of public education....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • 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

    • The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation
    • De: E. D. Hirsch
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 5 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-08-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 calificaciones
    • Drawing on early schoolmasters and educational reformers such as Noah Webster and Horace Mann, Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance....

    Precio regular: $18.89

    • The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education
    • De: John Owens
    • Narrado por: James Killavey
    • Duración: 8 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-02-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 calificaciones
    • An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • A New Answer for Our Broken Education System
    • De: Ron Paul
    • Narrado por: Steve Coulter
    • Duración: 5 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-17-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 calificaciones
    • Whether or not you have children, you know that education is vital to the prosperity and future of our society....

    Precio regular: $17.09

    • 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

    • Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
    • De: Vincent Schiraldi
    • Narrado por: Barry Abrams
    • Duración: 8 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-30-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • We've heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately four million more who are on probation and parole—monitored by the state at great expense....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • 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

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