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Tales Out of School: Joseph Fernandez's Crusade to Rescue American Education + The Closing of the American Mind (How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Soul's of Today's Students (TWO BOOKS)
Fernandez, Joseph A.;Underwood, John
1993 1101011571 These two books will open YOUR eyes to today's education. TALES OUT OF SCHOOL by JKoseph Fernandez, w/John Underwood (remainder mark outside bottom pages): Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez is one of the most controversial figures in American education. Written while he was still in office, Tales Out of School is his unflinching look at the plight of our schools, his prescription for how to get our ailing educational system back on its feet. It is also the story of his Harlem childhood, his years in Miami, whose floundering schools he infused with vitality, and his stormy years in New York City. Tales Out of School is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of our schools. FIRST EDITION. The second book in this listing: THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND, also a Hardcover w/book jacket, as new condition. by Allan Bloom, foreword by Saul Bellow, ISBN: 0671-479903, copyright 1987. 392 pages.A critique of the intellectual and moral confusions of this age argues that the social/political crisis of twentieth-century America is actually an intellectual crisis, and shows how American democracy has hosted ideas of nihilism, despair, and relativism disguised as tolerance. (BOTH books are hardcover w/book jackets in NEW condirtion and would be valued at fifty dollars +. Little Brown & Co 0316279188 / 9780316279185
Hard Cover AS NEW CONDITION Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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24.26 USD
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