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Choice is Yours: A Teenager’s Guide to Self-Discovery, Relationships, Values, and Spritual Growth [Paperback]

Choice is Yours: A Teenager's Guide to Self-Discovery, Relationships, Values, and Spritual Growth

M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled has helped millions of adults. For those just starting down the road to maturity, The Choice Is Yours leads teenagers through adolescence toward a strong sense of self and spiritual awareness. Introduction by M. Scott Peck.

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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Hardcover)

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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*Starred Review* As an education historian and former assistant secretary of education, Ravitch has witnessed the trends in public education over the past 40 years and has herself swung from public-school advocate to market-driven accountability and choice supporter back to public-school advocate. With passion and insight, she analyzes research and draws on interviews with educators, philanthropists, and business executives to question the current direction of reform of public education. In the mid-1990s, the movement to boost educational standards failed on political concerns; next came the emphasis on accountability with its reliance on standardized testing. Now educators are worried that the No Child Left Behind mandate that all students meet proficiency standards by 2014 will result in the dismantling of public schools across the nation. Ravitch analyzes the impact of choice on public schools, attempts to quantify quality teaching, and describes the da (more…)