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

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: 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.

Автор: Striner Richard
Название: Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear
ISBN: 1442277033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442277038
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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.