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1) Confessions of a bad teacher: the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late.
When John Owens left a lucrative job to teach English at a public school in New York City's South Bronx, he thought he could do some good. Faced with a flood of struggling students, Owens devised ingenious ways to engage every
...2) Superstar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Enrolling in public school after years of homeschooling, Lester, a mildly autistic fifth-grader, struggles to adapt and manage symptoms before becoming eager to win a science fair, discovering an unexpected truth along the way.
Publisher
Gateway Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This Christian documentary posits that public schools today are sources of indoctrination, and that American education has suffered as a result of liberal political agendas.
6) The liar
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adrian Healy loves to lie, and already in his public school career, marked by privilege and pederasty, he had lost the ability to differentiate between simple truth and his elaborate fictions.
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will...
Author
Series
Nearby history volume 1
Publisher
AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
viii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (14 pages)
Language
English
Description
Advocates for increased privatization of public schools have long contended that private schools could provide equal or better outcomes at lesser costs. To bolster that argument, this EdChoice report asserts that voucher and voucher-like (tax credit scholarship and education savings account) programs have saved state and local treasuries some $12.4 to $28.3 billion dollars as student "switchers" use those programs to leave public schools and enter...
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