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Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America

"This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."—The Los Angeles Times.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 496 pages

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