
The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
Dale Russakoff
#3711 of 3,809 books · #233 in Politics & Current Affairs
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2016).
As serialized in the New Yorker, a roiling, behind-the-scenes look at the high-pressure race to turn around Newark's failing schools, with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Governor Chris Christie, and Senator Cory Booker in eyebrow-raising leading roles.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780547840055
- Topics
- Education reformPublic school policyPolitics of urban education
Awards
- J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeShortlisted(2016)
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