How schools work : an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education

Summary: Examines some of the problems that plague the American public school system, identifies solutions that have worked in the past, and celebrates the hero teachers, staffers, and administrators the author met as the Obama Secretary of Education. --

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ISBN: 9781501173059
ISBN: 1501173057
ISBN: 9781501173073
Physical Description: print
vii, 243 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2018]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Lies, lies everywhere -- If we build it, they will come -- "The number is zero-point-two" -- The consortium -- "We need the carrot" -- Blue, one red -- Strange bedfellows -- Pounds of apples and three pounds of cheese -- "We matter!" -- How schools work.

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Duncan, Arne
Education Aims and objectives United States
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Public schools United States
Educational change United States
School administrators United States Biography
Cabinet officers United States Biography

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