Bibliograph

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

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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, Arne Duncan

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How schools work

Oclc number

1040211075

Responsibility statement

Arne Duncan

Sub title

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

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 adminstrators the author met as the Obama Secretary of Education. --, Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Lies, lies everywhere -- If we build it, they will come -- "The number is zero-point-two" -- The consortium -- "We need the carrot" -- One blue, one red -- Strange bedfellows -- Twenty-five pounds of apples and three pounds of cheese -- "We matter!" -- How schools work -- Appendix: What can you do?

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