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Are Charters Different?: Public Education, Teachers, and the Charter School Debate
Zachary W Oberfield · Harvard Education Press
Format: Paperback
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In his new book, Zachary W. Oberfield investigates the question of whether charter schools cultivate different teaching climates from those found in traditional public schools. To answer this question, Oberfield examined hundreds of thousands of teacher surveys from across the nation.... |
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The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
Michael Wolraich · Union Square & Co.
Format: Book
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The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall's dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next... |
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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Susan Devan Harness · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Book
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In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her "real"... |
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Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
David Horowitz · Bombardier Books
Format: Book
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In a narrative that possesses both remarkable political importance and extraordinary literary power, David Horowitz tells the story of his startling political odyssey from sixties radical to nineties conservative. A political document of our times, Radical Son traces three generations... |
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Return from Siberia
John Shallman · Skyhorse
Format: Book
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In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph - a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary... |
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The Souls of Yellow Folk
WESLEY YANG · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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The National Magazine Award-winning writer's debut collection of incisive, stylish essays on race and gender. Inspired by The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois's classic collection of essays on race and American society, Wesley Yang's debut book marks a fresh contribution... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES · One World
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"... |
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