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“david a hancock”

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  • Black Students White Teacher

    Ruminations and Lamentations

    by David A. Hancock ...
    Many are asking, what is wrong with teaching, learning, schooling, and education, and what can be done? You will get the answers (panacea) from the letters of a mad public school teacher: intrepid, irascible, cantankerous, provocative, passionate, thought-provoking, iconoclastic, and enhanced with vitriolic demagoguery.As a grad student / colleague said, Thanks for an enjoyable class on education ... Read more

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  • The Diary of a Mad Public School Teacher

    by David A. Hancock MA ...
    Many are asking, what is wrong with teaching, learning, schooling, and education, and what can be done? You will get the answers (panacea) from the letters of a mad public school teacher: intrepid, irascible, cantankerous, provocative, passionate, thought-provoking, iconoclastic, and enhanced with vitriolic demagoguery. As a grad student / colleague said, Thanks for an enjoyable class on education ... Read more

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  • Brainwashed

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  • Weapons of Mass Instruction

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  • What Unites Us

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    by Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner ...
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  • The Vanishing American Adult

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  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

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  • It Takes a Village

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  • The Shame of the Nation

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