Crash Course: A Radical Plan for Improving Public EducationFifteen million children in our schools today are below basic literacy levels. Chris Whittle took action by founding Edison Schools, the country's largest partner of the toughest inner-city public schools imaginable. His solution radically bettered the education of hundreds of thousands of students. Now he applies it to a revolutionary program for all American schools in this groundbreaking, vitally important book. |
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