No Size Fits All: A New Program of Choice for American Public Schools Without Vouchers, Striner Richard, Johnson L. Michelle

Автор: Striner Richard
Название: Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 153813716X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538137161
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: A radical reinterpretation of America's greatest president. Where previous Lincoln biographers describe his temperament as "moderate," "passive," or even "conservative," historian Richard Striner offers a stunningly original perspective that will shed significant new light on one of the most studied figures in American history. Striner shows Lincoln's audacity as no other book has ever done. By emphasizing the workings of Lincoln's mind--stressing his cunning, his overall honesty, strategic thinking--even his ability to change his mind--Striner looks anew at many topics and themes important to Lincoln's story that either revise or add new meaning to the work of previous biographers. His insights into Lincoln's life, but also into antebellum America, and the military and political history of the Civil War, make this book indispensable for well-read armchair historians, seasoned students of Lincoln, the Civil War, or the American presidency and newcomers alike.

Автор: Striner Richard
Название: Love in the Afterlife: Underground Religion at the Movies
ISBN: 1611478847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611478846
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Описание: This book is a definitive study of love-death-afterlife movies from the 1920s to the present. Scholars of film will appreciate this contribution to the intellectual history of cinema, and cultural critics will enjoy its presentation of the ways in which democracies can use entertainment to prompt unorthodox speculation in matters of the spirit.

Автор: Striner Richard
Название: Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear
ISBN: 1442277033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442277038
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Описание: Woodrow Wilson is often considered one of the greatest presidents in American history because, in the first two years of his presidency, he succeeded on many fronts. However, acclaimed author and historian Richard Striner now makes the case that a presidency that is too often idealized was full of missteps and failures that profoundly affected America's politics and people long after it ended. While other negative assessments of Wilson's leadership have been one-sided, Striner's critique-though undoubtedly scathing-is judicious, nuanced, and fair. With detailed description and accessible prose, Striner sheds light on how-as soon as America entered World War I-flaws of Wilson's were exposed as the pressure on his administration mounted. This book is a story of presidential failure, a chronicle of Woodrow Wilson's miscalculations in war, and a harrowing account of the process through which an intelligent American leader fell to pieces under a burden he could not bear.

Автор: Striner Richard
Название: Hard Times: Economic Depressions in America
ISBN: 1442253231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442253230
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Описание: Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the "great recession" that began in 2008. Striner conveys how Americans have always endured and rebounded from hard times, emerging as a stronger nation in the aftermath of each downturn.

Автор: Striner Richard
Название: No Size Fits All
ISBN: 1785272322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785272325
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"No Size Fits All" is a book that will break the public policy deadlock over federal education standards in the United States. American debates about education policy are focused at the moment on two big policy disputes.

The first big dispute concerns the Common Core testing standards, which force American students into a dreary routine that makes millions of children hate school for no good reason. The second big dispute concerns the proposal of Education Secretary Betsy De Vos to siphon federal public school funding into "vouchers" that parents could use to send their children to private schools. Critics complain that this proposal is inherently a threat to the hard-won right to a tuition-free public education at the elementary and secondary levels.

The politics of federal education policy has devolved into an all-or-nothing fight between defenders of a status quo that its critics condemn as oppressive and proponents of a school choice reform that its critics condemn as subversive. "No Size Fits All" interrupts this all-or-nothing argument with a humane and sensible alternative--one that could lay the groundwork for broad new consensus on federal education policy.