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Education’s Big Gamble: Charter Schools
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Serving over 105,000 students across the country, charter schools promise to educate students and to spend money wisely per the agreements of their approved charter. In exchange, they are exempt from most regulations and oversight. This documentary explores some of the most effective charter schools and some of the disasters in this new territory of public education.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply…. More >>
Education’s Big Gamble: Charter Schools
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School Rights: A Parent’s Legal Handbook and Action Guide
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The experience of being the parent or guardian of a child attending public school can be overwhelming. Whether you are dealing with an incompetent teacher, beginning (or ending) a school condom distribution program, or meeting the principal, it is helpful to know your rights. It’s also helpful to have suggestions about what may or may not work in certain situations. Tom Condon and Patricia Wolff’s School Rights: A Parent’s Legal Handbook and Action Guide explains your legal rights in public education (testing, teachers, special education, policy, curriculum), stresses that parents needn’t be passive, and, best of all, provides direct action plans for parents to follow. This book is designed for parents… More >>
School Rights: A Parent’s Legal Handbook and Action Guide
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America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education
This book documents the shocking state of public education in the United States, including the high rates of school violence, the decline in student achievement, and the politicization of the educational process. By comparing the performance of public schools with private schools (which spend less than half per capita than public counterparts), the book reveals areas in which public education might reduce administrative overhead, eliminate internal segregation of students, and provide a safe and disciplined learning environment. Also suggested are ways in which public schools might learn from the experience and traditions of the past, including the essential elements of learning in the one-room schoolhouse and … More >>
America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education
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Crippled by Compassion: Public Education’s Model for a Whiny, Underachieving America
Public schools are compromising the lives of millions of children, creating an unsustainable burden ratio. If we were solvent today, given Public Ed’s PC, dumb down entitlement sanctuary, sooner or later we’d be right back at current stats. In Crippled by Compassion, Robert Lutz exposes the fallacies of framing reform around the perpetual extortion of the American people on behalf of the children. The true beneficiaries of redistributive policies are a subset of public sector employees, as evidenced by the job banks of public school campuses and districts. Lutz scoffs at the notion that redirecting tax dollars to the classroom would bear significant improvement, given the vacancy of discipline and educatio… More >>
Crippled by Compassion: Public Education’s Model for a Whiny, Underachieving America
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Kids, Classrooms, and Capitol Hill: A Peek Inside the Walls of America’s Public Schools
There’s a battle going on in public education right now. Education reform is every politician’s favorite new cause. But educators, the experts in teaching and learning, are being left out of the conversation. And true education reform cannot happen until we see the issues clearly. Edgy, funny and poignant, Kids, Classrooms, and Capitol Hill explores the issues, big and small, facing the key players in what sometimes feels like an impossible quest– educating our nation’s youth…. More >>
Kids, Classrooms, and Capitol Hill: A Peek Inside the Walls of America’s Public Schools
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