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The Softening of American Education
Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future By Michael Barone
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Reading, Writing, and Willpower
Doomed to Fail: The Built-In Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch
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The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind? Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane
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Selective Memory
Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left
By Susan Braudy
Knopf, 2003, $27.95;...
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The Newest Americans
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity By Samuel P. Huntington
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Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools, by Lydia G. Segal (Northeastern). This worthy book...
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School Reform Economics
Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? by JAMES J. HECKMAN AND ALAN B. KRUEGER, EDITED by BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN
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Subordinate Clauses without Any Pauses
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by LYNNE TRUSS The War Against Grammar by DAVID MULROY
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A Method to His Mastery
Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World By James P. Comer, M.D. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.