Title How schools work : an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education / Arne Duncan.

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New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2018]

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Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	379.09 DUN	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	370.973 DUNCAN	Check Shelf
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Edition	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description	vii, 243 pages ; 22 cm
Note	Includes index.
Summary	Examines some of the problems that plague the American public school system, identifies solutions that have worked in the past, and celebrates the hero teachers, staffers, and adminstrators the author met as the Obama Secretary of Education. -- Publisher's description.
Contents	Lies, lies everywhere -- If we build it, they will come -- "The number is zero-point-two" -- The consortium -- "We need the carrot" -- One blue, one red -- Strange bedfellows -- Twenty-five pounds of apples and three pounds of cheese -- "We matter!" -- How schools work -- Appendix: What can you do?
Summary	From his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC, Duncan exposes the lies that have caused American kids to fall behind their international peers, from early childhood all the way to college graduation rates. But he also celebrates the countless everyday heroes encountered along the way, encouraging parents, teachers, voters, and even students to demand more of our public schools. -- adapted from jacket.
Subject	Duncan, Arne.
	Duncan, Arne. (OCoLC)fst01781075
	Duncan, Arne.
	Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
	Education and state -- United States.
	Public schools -- United States.
	Educational change -- United States.
	School administrators -- United States -- Biography.
	Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
	Cabinet officers. (OCoLC)fst00843535
	Education -- Aims and objectives. (OCoLC)fst00902507
	Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
	Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
	Public schools. (OCoLC)fst01082942
	School administrators. (OCoLC)fst01106935
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform.
	EDUCATION / Urban.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy.
	School administrators -- United States -- Biography.
	Public schools -- United States.
	Educational change -- United States.
	Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
	Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
	Education and state -- United States.
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Autobiographies.
Other Form:	Online version: Duncan, Arne. How schools work First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2018] 9781501173073 (DLC) 2018028092
ISBN	9781501173059 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	1501173057 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	9781501173073 electronic book

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