public schools

Recounts the author's life in education, discussing where he believes schools have gone wrong and what they should look like.

"Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education -- today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars -- there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty"--Jacket flap.

Nadia Lopez shares the inspiring vision for Mott Hall Bridges Academy, the middle school she founded against the odds in Brownsville, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

"Drawing on his work in hundreds of districts, Jamie [Vollmer] offers teachers, administrators, board members, and their allies a practical program to secure the understanding, trust, permission, and support they need to change the system and increase student success"--Amazon.com.

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.

"--- argues that under free market capitalism, life paths prescribed by class but framed as parental choices--publor or private? Gifted & Talented, general or special education?--segregate American children from birth throuh adolescence, and into adulthood, as never before. In age of austerity, an elite class of corporate education reformers has found new ways to transfer the costs f raising children to families. Examining three New York City schools, Class War show how education has been transformed into a competitive "hunger games" for the resources and social connections required for economic success"-- Provided by publisher.