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Book Review: Cheating Our Kids — How Politics and Greed Ruin Education

No one can accuse Joe Williams of cen­sur­ing a par­tic­u­lar per­son or group of peo­ple for the per­ceived decline in pub­lic edu­ca­tion over the last sev­eral decades.  In Cheating Our Kids:  How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Mr. Williams asserts that there is plenty of blame to go around—from teach­ers’ unions to […]

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Complex Justice: the case of Missouri v Jenkins

Linked below is a sum­mary of the book Complex Justice: the case of Missouri v. Jenkins writ­ten by Joshua Dunn, Ph.D. and Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

Dr. Dunn’s book details the land­mark Missouri v. Jenkins deseg­re­ga­tion case which man­dated $2 bil­lion of improve­ments to the Kansas City, Missouri school dis­trict, and which stretched for nearly three decades.

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