Public Education America

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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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    • The Rise of Public Education in America (How Things Worked)
    • By: Johann N. Neem
    • Narrated by: Marlin May
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War....

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    • The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
    • By: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....

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    • Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School
    • By: Courtney E. Martin
    • Narrated by: Courtney E. Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • One mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors....

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    • The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education
    • By: John Owens
    • Narrated by: James Killavey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late....

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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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    • An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin....

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    • The War for Public Opinion
    • By: Harold Holzer
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 26 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In Lincoln and the Power of the Press, Harold Holzer shows us an activist Lincoln through journalists who covered him from his start to the night of his assassination....

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    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A pioneer of the New Journalism movement, Hunter S. Thompson wrote with a fire that captured the attention of millions....

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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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    • How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

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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 Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America
    • By: David R. Ayón, George L. Pla
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America....

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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 148 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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    • The New Deal for Veterans
    • By: Glenn Altshuler
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor....

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    • Private Thoughts Made Public
    • By: Ted Koppel
    • Narrated by: Ted Koppel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Here, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint, are the significant matters of 1999 - from the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo to the mass-marketing of Viagra...

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    • How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Roger A. Mitchell Jr. MD, Jay D. Aronson PhD
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities....

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    • Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
    • By: James Stone
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from health care to education to inequality....

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    • Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce
    • By: Jamie Merisotis
    • Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In America Needs Talent, Jamie Merisotis explains why talent is needed to usher in a new era of innovation and success....

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