Social Reform

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    • Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
    • De: Paul Tough
    • Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
    • Duración: 8 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-23-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 calificaciones
    • The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $20.00

    • 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 917 calificaciones
    • Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir....

    Precio regular: $19.95

  • Precio regular: $7.20

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • 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

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • De: Jen Calonita
    • Narrado por: Kristin Condon
    • Serie: Fairy Tale Reform School, Libro 1
    • Duración: 5 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-03-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 calificaciones
    • Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly... but when you have five little brothers and sisters and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet....

    Precio regular: $13.24

    • Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915
    • De: Matthew S. Seligmann
    • Narrado por: John Lee
    • Duración: 8 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-27-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • A major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, Winston Churchill also continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • 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 188 calificaciones
    • In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers"....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
    • De: Deborah Stone
    • Narrado por: Donna Postel
    • Duración: 7 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-13-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • What do people do when they count? What do numbers really mean? We all know that people can lie with statistics, but in this groundbreaking work, eminent political scientist Deborah Stone uncovers a much deeper problem....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • One Town's Fight over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
    • De: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Narrado por: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Duración: 9 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-14-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 calificaciones
    • The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.

    Precio regular: $21.59

    • The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems
    • De: Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn
    • Narrado por: Dan Oster
    • Duración: 4 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-30-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it’s time to lead with coherence. Using the right drivers as your foundation, you’ll bring people and ideas together—and implement the kind of lasting change that maximizes results....

    Precio regular: $17.90

    • 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.

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
    • De: Marie Gottschalk
    • Narrado por: Janet Metzger
    • Duración: 17 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-13-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • De: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrado por: Graham Halstead
    • Duración: 9 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-08-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 calificaciones
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

    Precio regular: $15.47

    • A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
    • De: Lenny Duncan
    • Narrado por: Lenny Duncan
    • Duración: 4 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-08-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • In 1991, when he was 13 years old, Lenny Duncan stepped out of his house in West Philadelphia, walked to the Greyhound station, and bought a ticket - the start of his great American adventure. Today Duncan brings us a deeply personal story about growing up Black and queer in the US....

    Precio regular: $13.75

    • 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 554 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....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • De: Shane Bauer
    • Narrado por: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Duración: 10 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055 calificaciones
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
    • De: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
    • Narrado por: David Sadzin
    • Duración: 5 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-13-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish.

    Precio regular: $9.09