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Radical, February 2013
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Fighting to Put Students First
Harper
February 2013
On Sale: February 5, 2013
304 pages ISBN: 0062203983 EAN: 9780062203984 Kindle: B0089LOIAK Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
The United States is known as a world leader in innovation,
boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but
that status is at grave risk. American children are well
outside the top-ten international student rankings in
reading, science, and math; those rankings—not to mention
the nation's position of leadership on everything from the
economy to the military to issues of moral authority—will
continue to plummet unless we take dramatic action. Michelle
Rhee, a driving force behind American education reform, is
ready to make a change. In Radical, this fearless and pioneering advocate
draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better
American schools. Rhee's goal is to ensure that laws,
leaders, and policies are making students—not adults—our top
priority, and she outlines concrete steps that will put us
on a dramatically different course. Informing her critique
are her extraordinary experiences in education: her years of
teaching in inner-city Baltimore; her turbulent tenure as
chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools; and her
current role as an education activist. Rhee draws on dozens
of compelling examples—from schools she's worked in and
studied; from students who've left behind unspeakable home
lives and thrived in the classroom; from teachers whose
groundbreaking methods have produced unprecedented leaps in
student achievement. The book chronicles Rhee's awakening to
the potential of every child blessed with a great teacher,
her rage at realizing that adults with special interests are
blocking badly needed change, and her recognition that it
will take a grassroots movement to break through the
barriers to outstanding public schools. An incisive and intensely personal call to arms, Michelle
Rhee's Radical is required reading for anyone who
seeks a guide not only to the improvement of our schools but
also to a brighter future for America's children.
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