Social Reform

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    • A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
    • De: Linda Åkeson McGurk
    • Narrado por: Ann Richardson
    • Duración: 8 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-03-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 916 calificaciones
    • Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir....

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    • How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
    • De: Andrew Gumbel
    • Narrado por: Leon Nixon
    • Duración: 9 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-26-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • Won't Lose This Dream describes how the architects of Georgia State's success harnessed the power of evolving data technologies, a "moneyball" strategy that helped them recognize and remove the obstacles that have held poor students back....

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    • De: Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Duración: 8 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-05-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 calificaciones
    • Fredrik deBoer explores American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.

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    • Children in America's Schools
    • De: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrado por: Mark Winston
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-23-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 calificaciones
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

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    • How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
    • De: Josh Cowen
    • Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
    • Duración: 6 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-10-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.

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    • Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
    • De: Carla Shalaby
    • Narrado por: Luci Christian Bell
    • Duración: 7 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-27-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 calificaciones
    • In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers"....

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    • Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
    • De: Lisa Delpit
    • Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Duración: 9 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-18-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 calificaciones
    • Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where stereotypes and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education....

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    • 7 Reasons to Pull Your Child from Public Schools Before It's Too Late
    • De: Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan
    • Narrado por: Susan Hanfield
    • Duración: 7 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-24-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 calificaciones
    • 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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    • Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
    • De: Kimberly Jones
    • Narrado por: Kimberly Jones
    • Duración: 6 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-18-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 130 calificaciones
    • In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice....

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    • Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
    • De: Benjamin Herold
    • Narrado por: Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith
    • Duración: 13 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-23-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 calificaciones
    • Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools....

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    • The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
    • De: Lou Aronica, Ken Robinson
    • Narrado por: Ken Robinson PhD
    • Duración: 8 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-12-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 635 calificaciones
    • Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history....

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    • De: Alex S. Vitale
    • Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
    • Duración: 8 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 calificaciones
    • This audiobook attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice - even public safety....

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    • A True Story of the Fight for Justice
    • De: Bryan Stevenson
    • Narrado por: Bryan Stevenson
    • Duración: 6 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 553 calificaciones
    • In this very personal work, adapted from the original number one best seller, acclaimed lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom....

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    • How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
    • De: Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. LeMahieu
    • Narrado por: Adam Verner
    • Duración: 7 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-25-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach....

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    • And How They Got That Way
    • De: Amanda Ripley
    • Narrado por: Kate Reading
    • Duración: 7 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-13-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473 calificaciones
    • How do other countries create "smarter" kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before....

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    • Educational Leadership for Justice
    • De: Manya C. Whitaker
    • Narrado por: Julienne Irons
    • Duración: 8 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-08-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • 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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    • On the Principles of Democracy
    • De: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrado por: Julian Elfer
    • Duración: 6 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-25-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, and lowering the voting age to 16....

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    • A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
    • De: Zoe Burkholder
    • Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
    • Duración: 12 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-11-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only - or even always the dominant - civil rights strategy....

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    • The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
    • De: Leslie T. Fenwick
    • Narrado por: Deanna Anthony
    • Duración: 7 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-15-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • 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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    • Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools
    • De: Dr. Corey A. DeAngelis Ph.D
    • Narrado por: Chris Abell
    • Duración: 6 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-14-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 calificaciones
    • Discover the real story of how moms and dads across the country are turning the tide against radical activists in public schools in the ultimate book about America's parental rights movement....

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