How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success

How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education

â€œThis book merits every Americanâ€™s serious considerationâ€ (Vice President Joe Biden): from the Secretary of Education under President Obama, an exposÃ© of the status quo that helps maintain a broken system at the expense of our kidsâ€™ education, and threatens our nationâ€™s future.

â€œEducation runs on lies. Thatâ€™s probably not what youâ€™d expect from a former Secretary of Education, but itâ€™s the truth.â€ So opens Arne Duncanâ€™s How Schools Work, although the title could just as easily be How American Schools Work for Some, Not for Others, and Only Now and Then for Kids.

Drawing on nearly three decades in educationâ€”from his motherâ€™s after-school program on Chicagoâ€™s South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in Washington, DCâ€”How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they canâ€™t help poor kids, unions that refuse to modernize, Tea Partiers who call him an autocrat, affluent white progressive moms who hate yearly tests, and even the NRA, which once labeled Arne the â€œmost extreme anti-gun member of President Obamaâ€™s Cabinet.â€ Going to a childâ€™s funeral every couple of weeks, as he did when he worked in Chicago, will do that to a person.

How Schools Work 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 it also identifies what really does make a school work.

â€œAs insightful as it is inspiringâ€ (Washington Book Review), How Schools Work will embolden parents, teachers, voters, and even students to demand more of our public schools. If America is going to be great, then we can accept nothing less.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 1501173057SR3
ReleaseDate 2018-08-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501173059

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	1501173057SR3
ReleaseDate	2018-08-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501173059

How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education

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