Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's SchoolsIn a reporting tour de force that made national headlines and The New York Times bestseller list, 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. In a reporting tour de force, 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. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools. |
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CLASS WARFARE: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
User Review - KirkusAn in-depth, impeccably researched examination of the education-reform movements that have swept America over the last several decades, as well as the obstacles they've faced.The last 20 years have ... Read full review
Contents
The Race | 1 |
The Epiphanies | 19 |
If an Unfriendly Foreign Power Had Attempted | 42 |
A Governor and a President Take Center Stage | 58 |
Schoolyard Classroom | 72 |
Dont Worry Its Just a Parent | 86 |
The Idea Wasnt Just to Keep Them | 109 |
Our Party Has Got to Wake Up on This | 131 |
Cant Change from This Building | 245 |
Outcomes Not Achievement | 265 |
The Feinberg Gambit | 278 |
Going Over to the Other Side | 302 |
Two Winners | 315 |
Rhees Breakthrough | 331 |
Rocky Mountain High | 342 |
Teach Like Your Hairs on Fire | 355 |
Foxes in the Henhouse | 147 |
Building Harlem Success | 161 |
Pulling the Rug Out | 176 |
Faceless Bureaucracy | 190 |
The New Democrats | 206 |
Wake Up Obama Just Talked About You | 216 |
The Chosen Four | 229 |
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| Title | Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools |
| Author | Steven Brill |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2012 |
| ISBN | 145161201X, 9781451612011 |
| Length | 496 pages |
| Subjects | › › Education / Administration / General Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General Education / General Political Science / General Political Science / Public Policy / General |
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