American Public Schools
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard
- Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
- By: Eve L. Ewing
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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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, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings.
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Great Reviewer
- By Great Reviewer on 05-07-20
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard
- Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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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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Substitute
- Going to School with a Thousand Kids
- By: Nicholson Baker
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. What emerges from Baker's experience is a complex, often touching deconstruction of public schooling in America.
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- By Rich on 02-28-20
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Substitute
- Going to School with a Thousand Kids
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-25-16
- Language: English
- In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district....
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The Schoolhouse Gate
- Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
- By: Justin Driver
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation.
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Outstanding!
- By Marissa Cohen on 10-12-21
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The Schoolhouse Gate
- Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-04-18
- Language: English
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An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades....
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Children Under Fire
- An American Crisis
- By: John Woodrow Cox
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection - both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava’s best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun’s father had been shot to death outside of the boy’s elementary school. Ava’s and Tyshaun’s stories are extraordinary, but not unique.
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What about the kids that are left behind?
- By Denise on 04-11-21
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Children Under Fire
- An American Crisis
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-30-21
- Language: English
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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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Free the Children
- How Red State Americans Can Liberate Their Children from Government Schools
- By: James Ostrowski
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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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 kids out immediately. But Americans weren’t ready to listen. Now, 12 years later, after the left-wing takeover of the schools, a record number of school shootings last year and after the two cruel years of the Lockdown, Americans are finally ready to declare that America’s 170-year-old experiment with government schools has failed. In this new sequel, Ostrowski finds that government schools are worse in every way and proposes a bold political ...
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Free the Children
- How Red State Americans Can Liberate Their Children from Government Schools
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-30-24
- Language: English
- 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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Pluralism and American Public Education
- No One Way to School
- By: Ashley Rogers Berner
- Narrated by: John Scherch
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the traditional common school model and defends the educational pluralism that most liberal democracies enjoy. Berner provides a unique theoretical pathway that is neither libertarian nor state-focused and a pragmatic pathway that avoids the winner-takes-all approach of many contemporary debates about education.
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Pluralism and American Public Education
- No One Way to School
- Narrated by: John Scherch
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 01-30-18
- Language: English
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This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created....
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Cutting School
- Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
- By: Noliwe Rooks
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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One of the greatest American achievements in the 20th century was the creation of public schools and universal education, an ideal now deeply at risk. Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks provides a critical account of the making and unmaking of public education in Cutting School, the first book to foreground how vast racial and economic divides are part and parcel of the push to privatize our education system.
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over simplifies the race gap
- By Robert McClellan on 03-06-22
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Cutting School
- Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
- Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks provides a critical account of the making and unmaking of public education in Cutting School....
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A Fine Line
- How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools
- By: Tim DeRoche
- Narrated by: Tim DeRoche
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that little Linda Brown couldn't be excluded from a public school because of her race. In that landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the court famously declared that public education must be available to all on equal terms. But 66 years later, many of the best public schools remain closed to all but the most privileged families. Empowered by little-known state laws, school districts draw attendance zones around their best schools, indicating who is, and who isn't, allowed to enroll.
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A Fine Line
- How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools
- Narrated by: Tim DeRoche
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-17-20
- Language: English
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In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that little Linda Brown couldn't be excluded from a public school because of her race. In that landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the court famously declared that public education must be available to all on equal terms....
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First Class
- The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School
- By: Alison Stewart
- Narrated by: Alison Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.
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Good history of DC's elite Black High School
- By Marie on 08-09-21
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First Class
- The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School
- Narrated by: Alison Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-16-21
- Language: English
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Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence....
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Educational Pluralism and Democracy
- 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
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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. Calling for education reform that will enable US public schools to fulfill the longstanding promise of American education, Berner proposes a radical reimagining of both the structure and content of US public school systems. She urges policymakers to embrace educational pluralism, an internationally common model in which the government funds diverse types of schools that deliver more universal content.
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Educational Pluralism and Democracy
- How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-28-24
- Language: English
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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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Sex, Lies, and Scantrons
- The Average American's Public School Experience
- By: Matt Saccaro
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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As a student named Rick Starr experiences elementary school, middle school, and high school, he learns more about gender roles, psychological isolation, bullying, and apathy than about reading, writing, and arithmetic. After suffering through bad teachers, navigating the social ladder, confronting bullies, and completing countless standardized tests, he has a revelation about public school in America: It's comprised of sex, lies, and scantrons.
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Carried away in a flood of cruelness & pessimism.
- By Sue B on 04-09-15
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Sex, Lies, and Scantrons
- The Average American's Public School Experience
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-03-14
- Language: English
- After suffering through bad teachers, navigating the social ladder, confronting bullies, and completing countless standardized tests, he has a revelation about public school in America....
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Safe or Not
- 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
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Many people have said that the top prize in education is graduating students who are knowledgeable of the basics; however, too many of America's public-school children have not reached that level of stability. One of the reasons is too many students are concentrating more on the school environment than on math and science.
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Safe or Not
- Lessons Learned from 5000 School Days Inside an American Public School System
- Narrated by: Len Phillips
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-31-15
- Language: English
- Many people have said that the top prize in education is graduating students who are knowledgeable of the basics....
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