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Book Review: Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley

May 2, 2016March 15, 2020 - by Lucianete Hoffman

In her 2013 book, The Smartest Kids in the World, and How They Got That Way, Samantha Ripley, draws comparisons between the relatively successful education systems in three countries Finland, Poland …

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Book Review: A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind

April 20, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Fatima Sugapong

In A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind follows Cedric Jennings, a young Black student from an impoverished neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Jennings gets accepted into an Ivy League school, Brown University, …

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Book Review: The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein

April 20, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Lisa Herndon

I thought of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and the apple as I read The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein. The …

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Book Review: Stories of Survival Along the City’s Margins

March 16, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Jamie Martines

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family explores a range of themes: cyclical poverty, failure of the social services system, the value of education and inequality of women and girls, just to …

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Book Review: When People Come First in Education

March 6, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Cassie Giraldo

Sarah Carr focused Hope Against Hope on the “ordinary rather than the extraordinary” to illuminate the debate over urban education as it formed in New Orleans during her year of reporting.

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Book Review: Success Across the Hudson

March 3, 2016March 3, 2016 - by Aleksandra Konstantinovic

A once vital industrial hub in New Jersey remakes its school system by building on its strengths, emphasizing “the ensemble, not the prima donna.”

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Book Review: Newark’s Squandered Prize

February 25, 2016February 29, 2016 - by Peter Vernon

Recently shortlisted for the Lukas Book Prize, Dale Russakoff’s The Prize examines plans for the high-profile $100 million Facebook gift to “fix” Newark’s schools, and what went wrong along the way.

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Book Review: The Lost Children of Wilder by Nina Bernstein

May 13, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Latena Hazard

“The Lost Children of Wilder” follows a lawsuit initiated to reform foster care. The author follows a riveting narrative of Shirley Wilder and by telling her story addresses all the wrongs within the never-ending cycle of foster care.

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Book Review: All God’s Children explores the roots of violence and juvenile justice

May 3, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Lou Marillier

In “All God’s Children, ” Fox Butterfield examines America’s tradition of violence, and the evolution of its juvenile justice system, through the life and ancestry of the man known as America’s most violent prisoner: Willie Bosket.

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Book Review: Building A Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green

April 15, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Pola Lem

Imagine you’re given several years of pedagogical study (or several weeks of training, as the case may be). Then you are thrown into a dunk tank, a classroom full of …

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