Waiting for "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
- Paperback
279 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2010
Summary
Each book includes a $15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill jobs to fill—and fewer than 50 million Americans qualified to fill them. Educators, parents, political leaders, business people, and concerned citizens are determined to save our ed…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781586489274 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1586489275 |
| Author: | Participant Media |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 279 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 158mm x 230mm |
| Series: | Participant Guide Media |
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About The Author
Participant Media
Karl Weber is a writer and editor based in New York. He collaborated with Muhammad Yunus on his bestseller Creating a World Without Poverty and has edited two previous Participant Media Guides, Food, Inc. and Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species. Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Award -winning director and producer, whose work includes It Might Get Loud, the 2009 documentary featuring Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White and An Inconvenient Truth featuring former Vice President Al Gore, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2007. More recently, Guggenheim directed Barack Obama’s biographical film for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, as well as Obama’s 30-minute primetime infomercial. Guggenheim has also directed many television series including Deadwood, NYPD Blue, and 24.
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