Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture – serie
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Edison Schools
Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
Inbunden, 2005
2441 kr
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The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. …
Edison Schools
Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
Häftad, 2005
601 kr
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The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. …
Affirmative Action
Racial Preference in Black and White
Av Tim J. Wise
Inbunden, 2005
2441 kr
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Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of …
Affirmative Action
Racial Preference in Black and White
Av Tim J. Wise
Häftad, 2005
714 kr
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Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of …
Segregated Schools
Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America
Av Paul Street
Inbunden, 2005
2441 kr
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Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal," Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto apartheid. With an …
School Commercialism
From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity
Av Alex Molnar
Häftad, 2005
601 kr
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Pizza Hut's Book It! program rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. Toys R Us paid a Kansas school five dollars for each student who took its toy survey. Cisco Systems donated internet access to a California elementary school, asking in return for the school choir to sing the …
Small Schools
Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
Av Michael Klonsky, Susan Klonsky
Inbunden, 2008
2073 kr
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When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for …
Small Schools
Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
Av Michael Klonsky, Susan Klonsky
Häftad, 2008
431 kr
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When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for …
Segregated Schools
Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America
Av Paul Street
Häftad, 2005
417 kr
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Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal," Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto apartheid. With an …
