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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Choosing small Choosing small Lisette Lopez,Katherine G. Simon,Jay Feldman,Jay Feldman "With low achievement and high drop-out rates plaguing our larger public high schools, communities across the country are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawi… OL11637623W
American Schools American Schools William H Cosby From Bill Cosby, actor, entertainer, and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Fatherhood" and "Congratulations (Now What?)" comes a groundbreaking eBook with the potential to reinvent education in… OL15169446W
Mothers united Mothers united Andrea Dyrness "In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, an… OL16132591W
Tyranny of the textbook Tyranny of the textbook Beverlee Jobrack "In Tyranny of the Textbook, a retired educational director, gives a fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, and sold. Readers will come to understan… OL16190947W
Urban education Urban education Karen S. Gallagher "Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual an… OL16342131W
Saving the school Saving the school Michael Brick "An unstoppable principal's race to save a failing high school from falling short of its numbers and closing its doors forever. Anabel Garza: No school board would have put her forward as a model pri… OL16451408W
The new education The new education Cathy N. Davidson Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young peop… OL17829025W
The opportunity equation The opportunity equation Eric Schwarz "Citizen Schools is a fresh and personal look at education and the increasingly unequal access to opportunity in America. The book gets beyond the tired debate about charter schools and unions and te… OL17889037W
A Light Shines in Harlem A Light Shines in Harlem Mary C. Bounds A Light Shines in Harlem tells the fascinating history of New York 's first charter school, the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, and the early days of the state's charter school movement. Told… OL17947501W
Degrees of inequality Degrees of inequality Suzanne Mettler "America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only… OL19983428W
The art of play The art of play Anna R. Beresin "What can the art of play teach us about the art of play? Showcasing the paintings of more than one hundred Philadelphia public elementary school children, folklorist Anna Beresin's innovative book T… OL19984081W
Educational courage Educational courage Mara Sapon-Shevin,Nancy Schniedewind "Ten years after the passage of No Child Left Behind, high-stakes testing, national standards, and turn-around policies remain highly controversial. In the same period, we have seen the rise of mayor… OL20547646W