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The prize who's in charge of America's schools?

"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every city in A...

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Main Author: Russakoff, Dale (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Subjects:
Zuckerberg, Mark, > 1984-
Booker, Cory.
Christie, Chris.
Educational change > New Jersey > Newark.
Public schools > New Jersey > Newark.
Education > Political aspects > New Jersey > Newark.
Education and state > New Jersey.
Table of Contents:
  • The pact
  • Seduction in Sun Valley
  • The view from Avon Avenue
  • Engaging the community
  • The rise of the anti-Booker candidacy
  • Searching for Newark's superman
  • Hi, I'm Cami
  • District school, charter school
  • Transformational change meets the political sausage factory
  • Alif rising
  • The leading men move on
  • One Newark, whose Newark?
  • No excuses
  • Appendix I. Where the $200 million went
  • Appendix II. Newark schools by the numbers.

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