A Decade of Hit Books
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Public Education


Public Education Books

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Romeo and Juliet
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Rich Kid Poor Kid: The battle for public education: Vantage Point Issue 5
The Things We Never Say
A Coney Island of the Mind
The First Man
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Bird by Bird
In a Common Hour: SHORTLISTED FOR THE QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
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John Taylor Gatto
“ I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrat ...more ”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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“ Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But the smart money seems to know what it is doing. It provides support for programs like the Good News Club, which slowly erode the support for public education in the country at large and in their own constituency in particular. And then it lays the groundwork for dismantling public education in fa ...more ”
― Katherine Stewart, The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America’s Children
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Groups Tagged "Public Education"

Mrs. Van Otterloo's Reading Circle This is a group created for students of Mrs. Van Otterloo to engage in conversations amongst the…more
52 members, last active 12 years ago