How schools work : an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education /
From his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in Washington, 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 c...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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?