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AGAINST THE CURRENT: How One School Struggled and Succeeded with At-Risk Teens.
Edition: First printing.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the Urban Collaborative in Providence, Rhode Island - an independent, public middle school founded in 1989. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-435-081403.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25348More details Price: $15.00 -
HOW TO SURVIVE IN YOUR NATIVE LAND.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - Herndon looks at the 'good' mostly white, upper-middle class public schools and discusses the fatal flaws in public education: the system deals with children in groups and in every group there are some winners and some losers. While the educational reform movements of the 60's and 70's have been forgotten by most, the educational level of US children continues to drop (to the point where they had to change the scale on the SATs) and a book like this still contains much that is valuable, even if the hope of reform seems long-dead. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-671-208640.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 46536More details Price: $12.50 -
"I WON'T LEARN FROM YOU" and Other thoughts on Creative Maladjustment.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The New Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five essays on education, especially urban public education (and its failures) by this innovative thinker. Foreword by Colin Greer. xvii, 153 pp. ISBN: 156584095X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67716More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SCHOOL BOOK: For People Who Want to Know What All the Hollering is About.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book aimed at the "amateurs" - parents and others who want to know how to make the schools better. More than 40 years later, this is still as relevant as ever - or even more so, xii, Resources, index. 308 pp
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (some dampstaining to edges of back cover of dj, affecting the book slightly, original price of 7.95 still present - and a sturdy, tight copy)
Book ID: 79159More details Price: $18.50