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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate.
5) Box out
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
American public education is in controversy. As public schools across the country struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, some question the future and effectiveness of public schools in the U.S. For free-market reformers, private investors and large education corporations, this controversy spells opportunity in turning public schools over to private interests. Education, Inc. examines the free-market and for-profit...
7) Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A journalist and native of Prince Edward County reveals how the county defied the law after the Brown v. Board of Education decision by refusing to integrate and closing its public schools for five years, and describes her own family's role in the county's shameful history.
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