How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education Audiobook (Free)

“This book merits every American’s serious consideration” (Vice President Joe Biden): from your Secretary of Education under President Obama, an exposé of the status quo that helps preserve a broken system at the expense of our kids’ education, and threatens our nation’s future.

“Education works on lies. That’s probably not what you’d anticipate from a former Secretary of Education, but it’s the truth.” Therefore opens Arne Duncan’s How Schools Function, although the title could just as very easily be How American about how exactly Schools Work: AN INTERNAL Account of Failure and Success from One of the country’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education Schools Function for Some, Not really for Others, in support of Occasionally for Kids.

Sketching on nearly three decades in education—from his mom’s after-school program on Chicago’s South Part to his tenure as Secretary of Education in Washington, DC—How Classes Work comes after Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on issues at every convert: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who have call him racist, teachers who insist they may’t help poor children, unions that won’t modernize, Tea Partiers who also call him an autocrat, affluent white progressive mothers who hate annual tests, as well as the NRA, which once labeled Arne the “most extreme anti-gun person in President Obama’s Cupboard.” Likely to a kid’s funeral every couple of weeks, as he did when he worked in Chicago, can do that to a person.

How Schools Function exposes the lays that have caused American children to fall behind their international peers, from early childhood completely to college graduation rates. But it also identifies what really does make a school work.

“Simply because insightful as it is inspiring” (Washington Book Review), How Institutions Work will embolden parents, instructors, voters, and even college students to demand even more of our public schools. If America is going to be great, then we are able to accept nothing less.