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The $100,000 teacher : a teacher's solution to America's declining public school system


Crosby, Brian (Brian Franklyn)
Sterling, Va. : Capital Books, [2002] 2002

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Ain't nobody be learnin' nothin' : the fraud and the fix in high-poverty schools


Rossiter, Caleb S., author.
New York : Algora Publishing, [2015] 2015

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All together now : creating middle-class schools through public school choice


Kahlenberg, Richard D.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2001] 2001

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The American dream and the public schools


Hochschild, Jennifer L., 1950-
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 2003

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American education and the dynamics of choice


Rinehart, James R.
New York, NY : Praeger, 1991. 1991

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America's education deficit and the war on youth


Giroux, Henry A.
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2013] 2013

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Another kind of public education : race, schools, the media, and democratic possibilities


Hill Collins, Patricia.
Boston : Beacon Press, [2009] 2009

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Becoming good American schools : the struggle for civic virtue in education reform



San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, [2000] 2000

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The blackboard and the bottom line : why schools can't be businesses


Cuban, Larry.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. 2004

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Blackboard tyranny


Marshner, Connaught Coyne, 1951-
New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, [1978] 1978

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Building a learning culture in America


Chavous, Kevin P., author.
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2016] 2016

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Can we talk about race? : and other conversations in an era of school resegregation


Tatum, Beverly Daniel.
Boston, Mass. : Beacon ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor] , 2008. 2008

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Choosing schools : vouchers and American education


Hanus, Jerome J.
Washington, D.C. : American University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed by arrangement with University Pub. Associates, [1996] 1996

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Class action : how to create accountability, innovation, and excellence in American schools


Katzman, John.
New York : Villard Books, 1995. 1995

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Class warfare : besieged schools, bewildered parents, betrayed kids and the attack on excellence


Rochester, J. Martin.
San Francisco, Calif. : Encounter Books, 2004. 2004

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Class warfare : inside the fight to fix America's schools


Brill, Steven, 1950-
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011. 2011

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The Cleopatra teacher rules : effective strategies for engaging students and increasing achievement


Yisrael, Sean B.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2014. 2014

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Collateral damage : how high-stakes testing corrupts America's schools


Nichols, Sharon Lynn.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, [2007] 2007

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Comparing private schools and public schools using hierarchical linear modeling.



[Washington, D.C.] : United States Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, [2006] 2006

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Confessions of a bad teacher : the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education


Owens, John, author.
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2013]. 2013

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Consensus : education reform is possible


Hayes, William, 1938- author.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013. 2013

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Crimes of the educators : how utopians are using government schools to destroy America's children


Blumenfeld, Samuel L.
Washington, D.C. : WND Books, 2014. 2014

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Cutting school : privatization, segregation, and the end of public education


Rooks, Noliwe, 1963- author.
New York : The New Press, [2017] 2017

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Cutting school : privatization, segregation, and the end of public education


Rooks, Noliwe, 1963- author.
New York, NY : The New Press, [2017] 2017

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The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining educ


Ravitch, Diane, author.
New York : Basic Books, 2016. 2016

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The diminished mind; a study of planned mediocrity in our public schools.


Smith, Mortimer Brewster, 1906-1981.
Chicago : H. Regnery Co., 1954. 1954

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Educating all God's children : what Christians can-and should-do to improve public education for low


Fulgham, Nicole Baker.
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, [2013] 2013

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Education : opposing viewpoints



Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2005] 2005

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Education under siege : frauds, fads, fantasies and fictions in educational reform.


Shapiro, Arthur S., 1928-
Lanham [Md.] : R & L Education, 2013. 2013

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Exploring the myths and realities of today's schools : a candid review of the challenges educators f


McAdams, Richard P.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2010] 2010

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Feel-bad education : and other contrarian essays on children and schooling


Kohn, Alfie.
Boston : Beacon Press, [2011] 2011

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Final test : the battle for adequacy in America's schools


Schrag, Peter, author
New York : New Press : 2003. 2003

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Horace Mann's vision of the public schools : is it still relevant?


Hayes, William, 1938-
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006. 2006

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How schools work : an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving


Duncan, Arne, author.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2018] 2018

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Improving school leadership : the promise of cohesive leadership systems



Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2009] 2009

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Improving schools from within : teachers, parents, and principals can make the difference


Barth, Roland S.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1990. 1990

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Inside school turnarounds : urgent hopes, unfolding stories


Pappano, Laura, 1962-
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, [2010] 2010

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Insurrection : a teacher revolution in defense of children


Reeves, Keith David, author.
Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2016] 2016

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The K-12 implosion


Reynolds, Glenn H.
New York : Encounter Books, 2013. 2013

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Learning in public : lessons for a racially divided America from my daughter's school


Martin, Courtney E., author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. 2021

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Making failure pay : for-profit tutoring, high-stakes testing, and public schools


Koyama, Jill Peterson.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. 2010

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The making of Americans : democracy and our schools


Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928-
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2009] 2009

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Making the best of schools : a handbook for parents, teachers, and policymakers


Oakes, Jeannie.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [1990] 1990

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The manufactured crisis : myths, fraud, and the attack on America's public schools


Berliner, David C.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1995] 1995

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Multiple choice : finding the best answer for your child's education


Singleton, Martha, 1949- author.
Abilene : Leafwood Publishers : imprint of Abilene Christian University Press, 2018. 2018

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My name is Pedro



[Place of publication not identified] : Passion River, [2021] 2021

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The new school : how the information age will save American education from itself


Reynolds, Glenn H.
New York : Encounter Books, 2014. 2014

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No child left behind and the public schools


Abernathy, Scott Franklin, 1966-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007] 2007

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On being a teacher


Kozol, Jonathan.
New York : Continuum, 1981. 1981

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