American Public Schools

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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 149 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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    • Going to School with a Thousand Kids
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 65 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 46 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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    • No One Way to School
    • By: Ashley Rogers Berner
    • Narrated by: John Scherch
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
    • By: Noliwe Rooks
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks provides a critical account of the making and unmaking of public education in Cutting School....

    Regular price: $15.47 or 1 credit

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    • 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
    • Release date: 05-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School
    • By: Alison Stewart
    • Narrated by: Alison Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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 Average American's Public School Experience
    • By: Matt Saccaro
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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