Public School Education

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    • Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
    • By: Eve L. Ewing
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures - they're an integral part of their neighborhoods....

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    • By: Stephen Prothero
    • Narrated by: Stephen Prothero
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • We are a religiously illiterate nation, yet despite this lack of knowledge, politicians continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed or misinterpreted by the vast majority of Americans....

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    • Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education
    • By: Frederick M. Hess, Pedro A. Noguera
    • Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Alex Knox
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K-12 education today - from school choice to testing to diversity to privatization....

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    • The Story of Two Families and Mendez, et al. v. Westminster, the 1947 Desegregation of California Public Schools
    • By: Janice Munemitsu
    • Narrated by: Janice Munemitsu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Kindness of Color follows two immigrant families facing separate battles with racism in WWII-era Southern California. Unexpectedly, their paths intertwine, paving the way for the landmark case Mendez, et. al v. Westminster and the desegregation of California public schools....

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    • An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education
    • By: Arne Duncan
    • Narrated by: Arne Duncan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • “Education runs on lies. That’s probably not what you’d expect from a former Secretary of Education, but it’s the truth.” So opens Arne Duncan’s How Schools Work, or How American Schools Work for Some, Not for Others, and Only Now and Then for Kids....

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    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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    • A book of opinions from one principal of a public elementary school.
    • By: Robert Hinchliffe
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-25
    • Language: English
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    • It’s All About Perspective is a collection of thoughts and opinions that plan to get all individuals in education thinking about where they stand...

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    • Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
    • By: Dale Russakoff
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts - as reformers face off against entrenched unions....

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    • Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
    • By: Max Felker-Kantor
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE programs brought the War on Drugs into schools.

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    • An American Crisis
    • By: John Woodrow Cox
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Based on the acclaimed series - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation’s children, and a call to action for a new way forward....

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    • How Red State Americans Can Liberate Their Children from Government Schools
    • By: James Ostrowski
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 2009, Jim Ostrowski published a book called Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids: What You Need to Know. He urged Americans to pull their ...

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    • Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
    • By: Steven Brill
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 08-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure....

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    • Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education
    • By: Ujju Aggarwal
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Unsettling Choice traces the contestations that surfaced when, in the wake of the 2007-2009 Great Recession, public schools navigated austerity by expanding choice-based programs.

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    • The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators
    • By: Shani Robinson, Anna Simonton
    • Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly a proxy for corporate greed....

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    • How to Fix Our Schools
    • By: Joel Klein
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Lessons of Hope is Klein's inside account of his eight-year mission of improvement: demanding accountability, eliminating political favoritism, and battling a powerful teachers union....

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    • How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools
    • By: Ashley Rogers Berner
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Educational Pluralism and American Democracy, education policy expert Ashley Rogers Berner envisions a K-12 education system that serves both the individual and the common good.

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    • The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Harry Chase
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education....

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    • How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
    • By: Ira Socol, Pam Moran, Chad Ratliff
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders, Chief Technology Officer Ira Socol, Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate how you can implement innovative practices that have shown remarkable success....

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    • Destroying Children & America is What They Were Designed to Do
    • By: Greg Perry
    • Narrated by: Greg Perry
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Objectively, one could argue that the government schools are fine. Yes, they are fine... As long as you don't consider....

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    • Lessons Learned from 5000 School Days Inside an American Public School System
    • By: Cecil Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Len Phillips
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Many people have said that the top prize in education is graduating students who are knowledgeable of the basics....

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