Social Reform

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    • 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 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 636 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....

    Precio regular: $15.47

    • How to Fix College Sports
    • De: Kenneth L. Shropshire, Collin D. Williams Jr.
    • Narrado por: Danny Campbell
    • Duración: 3 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-25-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • As the revenues generated by big-time college sports continue to skyrocket, the debate involves whether student-athletes should be paid for play. Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr., argue that "student" has to come first: the focus should be on prioritizing a meaningful education....

    Precio regular: $11.17

    • 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

    • 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 391 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 Captivating Guide to a Period in American History Filled with Political Reforms and Social Activism (U.S. History)
    • De: Captivating History
    • Narrado por: Colin Fluxman
    • Duración: 3 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-01-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • The Progressive Era, a time of social, political, and economic reform in the United States, spanned the years 1877 to 1929—the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression....

    Precio regular: $11.66

    • 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

    • De: Jen Calonita
    • Narrado por: Kristin Condon
    • Serie: Fairy Tale Reform School, Libro 3
    • Duración: 5 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-21-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 calificaciones
    • Times are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School. At least that's what Gilly's heard. Rumor is that notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management....

    Precio regular: $14.20

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $20.00

    • 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

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $19.74

    • Love and Death in Chicago
    • De: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrado por: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Duración: 9 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 calificaciones
    • Over the past 20 years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
    • De: Arthur Levine, Scott J. Van Pelt
    • Narrado por: Perry Daniels
    • Duración: 9 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-27-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 calificaciones
    • Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a historical, cross-industry perspective, they perform a survey of American higher education....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • De: Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrado por: Laura Orlando
    • Duración: 3 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-16-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Reform or Revolution was an influential pamphlet published by Marxist Rosa Luxemburg in 1899. In it, she argues that a revolution is necessary in order to transform a capitalist society into a socialist one. It was a strong criticism of German socialist thinker Eduard Bernstein....

    Precio regular: $16.00

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • 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

    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • De: Victoria Law
    • Narrado por: Melissa Moran
    • Serie: Myths Made in America
    • Duración: 5 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-06-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • 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.

    Precio regular: $25.19