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The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business

Designed to re-energize educators and inspire teachers, this moving account of what is possible in education draws examples from a diverse high school in Providence, Rhode Island, with the highest rates of attendance and college acceptance in the state.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 230 pages

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