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

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

Duncan, Arne (Author).

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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Subject: Duncan, Arne
Education Aims and objectives United States
Education and state United States
Public schools United States
Educational change United States
School administrators United States Biography
Cabinet officers United States Biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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520 . ‡aFrom his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC, 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 celebrates the countless everyday heroes encountered along the way, encouraging parents, teachers, voters, and even students to demand more of our public schools. -- adapted from jacket.
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