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At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity.
Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: "Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want."
We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years.
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Good read after seeing Waiting for Superman
- De Marie en 04-10-13
De: Michelle Rhee
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The Prize
- Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
- De: Dale Russakoff
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of their billion-dollar-per-annum system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched - Provides Good Answers
- De Denyse en 01-11-16
De: Dale Russakoff
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Whatever It Takes
- Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
- De: Paul Tough
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children, not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aboslutely terrific!
- De Anthony en 09-21-10
De: Paul Tough
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A Nation of Nations
- A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
- De: Tom Gjelten
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African American, with a little more than 100 families who were "other". Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize".
De: Tom Gjelten
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Letters to a Young Teacher
- De: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A must read for new teachers
- De Santiago en 03-31-10
De: Jonathan Kozol
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Blackballed
- The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
- De: Lawrence Ross
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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From Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine, Blackballed is an explosive and controversial book that rips the veil off America's hidden secret: America's colleges have fostered a racist environment that makes them hostile spaces for African American students. Blackballed exposes the white fraternity and sorority system, with traditions of racist parties and songs and assaults on black students; and the universities themselves, who name campus buildings after racist men and women.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful
- De Rupe en 11-09-16
De: Lawrence Ross
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Common Ground: Exclusive Edition
- De: Justin Trudeau
- Narrado por: Justin Trudeau, Colm Feore
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Justin Trudeau has spent his life in the public eye. From the moment he was born, the first son of an iconic prime minister and his young wife, Canadians have witnessed the highs and the lows, sharing in his successes and mourning with him during tragic times. But few beyond Justin's closest circle have heard his side of his unique journey. Now, in Common Ground, Justin Trudeau reveals how the events of his life have influenced him and formed the ideals that drive him today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerizing
- De emilia en 05-04-18
De: Justin Trudeau
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Creative Schools
- The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
- De: Lou Aronica, Ken Robinson
- Narrado por: Ken Robinson PhD
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 636
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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation's troubled educational system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Answer to Why Students Stop Trying
- De Alison Sattler en 07-21-15
De: Lou Aronica, y otros
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The Smartest Kids in the World
- And How They Got That Way
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,247
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,244
How do other countries create "smarter" kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy.What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers? In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embedded in these countries for one year.
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1 out of 5 stars
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a Wanna-be fiction writer avoids the subject
- De Niall en 11-23-13
De: Amanda Ripley
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Class Warfare
- Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 16 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Unions are Evil
- De Elton en 09-16-11
De: Steven Brill
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How to Be Black
- De: Baratunde Thurston
- Narrado por: Baratunde Thurston
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032
Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny yet insightful!
- De Theodore en 02-15-12
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Savage Inequalities
- Children in America's Schools
- De: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrado por: Mark Winston
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he discovered separate systems of public schools, with the children of America's poor condemned to schools that are underfunded, understaffed, physically crumbling, and imbued with despair.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book for budding education professionals
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-17
De: Jonathan Kozol
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Acts of Faith
- The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
- De: Eboo Patel
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel's story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people - and of the world-changing potential of an interfaith youth movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Waited three years for this audiobook
- De Eva en 08-29-13
De: Eboo Patel
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The Global Achievement Gap
- Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need - and What We Can Do About it
- De: Tony Wagner
- Narrado por: Paul Costanzo
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the context of the global knowledge economy and analyzes the skills necessary for our young people to succeed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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made obsolete by 'MostLikelyToSucceed'-still great
- De MichaelS en 04-01-16
De: Tony Wagner
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The Formula
- Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children
- De: Ronald F. Ferguson, Tatsha Robertson
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.
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4 out of 5 stars
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would recommend
- De Marcia en 02-25-20
De: Ronald F. Ferguson, y otros
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Waging a Good War
- A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 61
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Thomas E. Ricks offers an utterly new perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution—the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s—and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone, but through recruiting, training, discipline, and organization—the hallmarks of any successful military campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was born and raised in Alabama. Jim Crow Era.
- De Moses Pitts en 10-06-22
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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Song in a Weary Throat
- Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
- De: Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott - Introduction by
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 19 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism. Now Murray is finally getting long-deserved recognition: The first African American woman to receive a doctorate of law at Yale, her name graces one of the university's new colleges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Song with a key to my life
- De Fran White en 11-28-24
De: Pauli Murray, y otros
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How We Get Free
- Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
- De: Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 191
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The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to black feminism and its impact on today's struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crucial history
- De Laura T en 10-04-18