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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education
    • By: Laura Pappano
    • Narrated by: Tracy Parsons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Journalist Laura Pappano explores the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public school education....

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    • By: Napoleon Hill
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32,031 ratings
    • Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals....

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    • The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
    • By: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Diane Ravitch, America's foremost historian of education, says that public education in the United States is one of the pillars of our democratic society....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 7 Reasons to Pull Your Child from Public Schools Before It's Too Late
    • By: Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan
    • Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. They are especially poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith - ordinary families who value traditional morality and plain old common sense....

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    • Educational Leadership for Justice
    • By: Manya C. Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Julienne Irons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • Efforts to address inequities within our schools tend to ignore the underlying beliefs that sustain injustices, and focus instead on short-lived policies and practices. This book takes a different approach to eradicating educational disparities....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • WHY and HOW LifeWise Academy is Reinstalling Religious Education into the Public School Day
    • By: Joel Penton
    • Narrated by: Joel Penton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Decades ago, we systematically removed religious education from the public school day. LifeWise Academy is bringing it back....

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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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