Social Reform

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    • Life in the Year After Prison
    • De: Bruce Western
    • Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Duración: 8 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-30-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? Find out more....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Optimizing Fiscal, Facility, and Human Resources
    • De: Craig A. Schilling, Daniel R. Tomal
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 7 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-01-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Resource Management for School Administrators is the only comprehensive book covering all school resources - fiscal, facilities, and human resources. Each chapter has objectives that are aligned with the new ELCC and ISLCC standards on accreditation....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems
    • De: William D. Eggers, Donald F. Kettl
    • Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
    • Duración: 8 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-09-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • Our government is in crisis, mired in bureaucracy and often unable to fix tough problems. This book provides an essential new model for transforming the system and getting things done....

    Precio regular: $17.19

  • Precio regular: $10.47

    • What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
    • De: Wendy Kopp, Steven Farr
    • Narrado por: Kate Mulligan
    • Duración: 6 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-27-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • In this inspiring, optimistic book, TFA’s founder and president Wendy Kopp shows concretely that the achievement gap can be closed, and delineates what it will take to close it....

    Precio regular: $18.03

    • Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
    • De: Greg Lukianoff
    • Narrado por: Philip Hodges
    • Duración: 9 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-04-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 calificaciones
    • For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America's colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • How College Divides Us
    • De: Paul Tough
    • Narrado por: Paul Tough
    • Duración: 12 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-13-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 calificaciones
    • From best-selling author Paul Tough, an indelible and explosive book on the glaring injustices of higher education, including unfair admissions tests, entrenched racial barriers, and crushing student debt. Now updated and expanded for the pandemic era....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
    • De: Anya Kamenetz
    • Narrado por: Anya Kamenetz
    • Duración: 11 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-23-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net—the public school system—was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning
    • De: Jack Schneider, Ethan L. Hutt
    • Narrado por: Rudy Sanda
    • Duración: 7 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-09-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Our primary assessment technologies don't actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. In Off the Mark, Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt explain how we got into this predicament, why we remain beholden to outmoded forms of assessment, and what we can do to change course.

    Precio regular: $17.49

    • How to Change the Workplace for Good
    • De: Michelle Silverthorn
    • Narrado por: Janina Edwards
    • Duración: 5 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-26-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 calificaciones
    • Culture change expert and diversity speaker Michelle Silverthorn explains how to transform diversity and inclusion from mere lip service into the very heart of leadership....

    Precio regular: $13.99

    • How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
    • De: Neil Gross
    • Narrado por: Leon Nixon
    • Duración: 8 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-21-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • From “one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation” and a former cop, Walk the Walk is the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing....

    Precio regular: $14.99

    • Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
    • De: Kevin Carey
    • Narrado por: James Yaegashi
    • Duración: 9 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-03-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 calificaciones
    • From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education
    • De: Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade, H. Richard Milner IV - foreword
    • Narrado por: James Fouhey
    • Duración: 7 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-20-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • A leading scholar-practitioner and ardent proponent of culturally responsive forms of education, Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade aims to settle the debates over whether we should work toward a public education system built on the goal of equality....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
    • De: Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander - foreword
    • Narrado por: Emily Durante
    • Duración: 9 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-21-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 calificaciones
    • In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Reclaiming Our Democracy
    • De: Lawrence Lessig
    • Narrado por: Lawrence Lessig
    • Duración: 10 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-05-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 calificaciones
    • In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry....

    Precio regular: $24.29

    • A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themsleves
    • De: James Tooley
    • Narrado por: James Foster
    • Duración: 10 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-09-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 calificaciones
    • Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • De: William G. Howell, Terry M. Moe
    • Narrado por: James Romick
    • Duración: 8 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-17-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government....

    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

    • Una defensa del conocimiento poderoso
    • De: Gregorio Luri
    • Narrado por: Jaime Pérez de Sevilla y Bautista
    • Duración: 12 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-23-20
    • Idioma: Español
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Un perfecto análisis de la educación actual para animarnos a volver a una escuela en donde el conocimiento valioso y las prácticas soportadas por evidencias sean realmente el eje. Porque con la escuela no se juega....

    Precio regular: $18.05

    • Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
    • De: Noliwe Rooks
    • Narrado por: Robin Eller
    • Duración: 8 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-26-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 calificaciones
    • Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks provides a critical account of the making and unmaking of public education in Cutting School....

    Precio regular: $15.47