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How schools work : an inside account from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education, Arne Duncan
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- Summary
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- 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. --
- From 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- vii, 243 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781501173059
- Label
- How schools work : an inside account from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education
- Title
- How schools work
- Title remainder
- an inside account from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education
- Statement of responsibility
- Arne Duncan
- Title variation
- How schools work
- Title variation remainder
- an inside account of failure and success from one of the nations longest-serving secretaries of education
- Subject
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- Cabinet officers
- Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography
- trueDiscrimination in education
- Duncan, Arne
- Duncan, Arne
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform
- EDUCATION / Urban
- trueEducation
- Education -- Aims and objectives
- trueEducation -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- Education -- United States
- Education and state
- Education and state -- United States
- Educational change
- trueEducational policy
- trueInequality
- trueInequality and education
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy
- truePolitics and education
- Public schools
- truePublic schools
- Public schools -- United States
- School administrators
- School administrators -- United States -- Biography
- trueSchools
- trueUnited States
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions
- trueEducational change -- United States
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- 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. --
- From 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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- contains biographical information
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- 10688020
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- Duncan, Arne
- Dewey number
- 379.0973
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Duncan, Arne
- Duncan, Arne
- Education
- Education and state
- Public schools
- Educational change
- School administrators
- Cabinet officers
- Cabinet officers
- Education
- Education and state
- Educational change
- Public schools
- School administrators
- United States
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform
- EDUCATION / Urban
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy
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- an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education
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- How schools work : an inside account from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education, Arne Duncan
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 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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- on1040211075
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- vii, 243 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501173059
- Lccn
- 2018016716
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1040211075
- Label
- How schools work : an inside account from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education, Arne Duncan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- on1040211075
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- vii, 243 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501173059
- Lccn
- 2018016716
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1040211075
Subject
- Cabinet officers
- Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography
- trueDiscrimination in education
- Duncan, Arne
- Duncan, Arne
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform
- EDUCATION / Urban
- trueEducation
- Education -- Aims and objectives
- trueEducation -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- Education -- United States
- Education and state
- Education and state -- United States
- Educational change
- trueEducational policy
- trueInequality
- trueInequality and education
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy
- truePolitics and education
- Public schools
- truePublic schools
- Public schools -- United States
- School administrators
- School administrators -- United States -- Biography
- trueSchools
- trueUnited States
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions
- trueEducational change -- United States
- Autobiographies
- Biography
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