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The black-white educational achievement gap - so much discussed for so many years - has already been closed by Black students attending New York City's charter schools. This might be expected to be welcome news. But it has been very unwelcome news in traditional public schools whose students are transferring to charter schools. A backlash against charter schools has been led by teachers unions, politicians and others - not only in New York, but across the country. If those attacks succeed, the biggest losers will be minority youngsters for whom a quality education is their biggest chance for a better life.
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First released 20 years ago & now a classic!
- De Wayne en 11-05-18
De: Thomas Sowell
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- De: Jason L. Riley
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
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In the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative social theorists, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors. Maverick showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one of our foremost public intellectuals.
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A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- De Wayne en 06-08-21
De: Jason L. Riley
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Ethnic America
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: James Bundy
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Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
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Understanding the ethnic tapestry of America
- De Amazon Customer en 12-23-19
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
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The Best Book By The Smartest Guy in the Room
- De Dave en 10-20-11
De: Thomas Sowell
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Intellectuals and Race
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense - one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The book explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.
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A Satisfying Indictment of the Intelligentsia
- De Andrew en 12-27-16
De: Thomas Sowell
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Discrimination and Disparities
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is listenable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
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Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
- De Charles en 01-14-19
De: Thomas Sowell
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Ever Wonder Why?
- And Other Controversial Essays
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his characteristically unsparing candor.
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He does it again.
- De David Hosler en 09-28-23
De: Thomas Sowell
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Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Michael Kevin
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Sociologist-economist Sowell, a noted conservative, offers opinions on social and foreign policy, law, education, and race, criticizing the trend of American politics since Reagan and reserving his sharpest criticism for special-interest groups.
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A Great Mind
- De Jon en 12-16-06
De: Thomas Sowell
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Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
- An International Perspective
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth.
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A paradigm shift on the subject of equality
- De Steven Schardein en 10-02-15
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Economics and Politics of Race
- An International Perspective
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
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Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world.
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Very interesting material, with not very good audi
- De Martin P. Rodgers en 04-03-13
De: Thomas Sowell
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The Einstein Syndrome
- Bright Children Who Talk Late
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject of late-talking children. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental disorders or autism, there is a certain well-defined group who are developmentally normal or even quite bright, yet who may go past their fourth birthday before beginning to talk.
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Explains my children so much!
- De CoffeeMama2 en 03-16-24
De: Thomas Sowell
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Social Justice Fallacies
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed.
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Timely book by 93 year old Thomas Sowell
- De Wayne en 09-27-23
De: Thomas Sowell
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A Conflict of Visions
- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Michael Edwards
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In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions.
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Critical read for 2008 change election
- De Elaine C Grimes en 06-05-08
De: Thomas Sowell
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Migrations and Cultures
- A World View
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long period of time. Migrations and Cultures shows the persistence of cultural traits in particular racial and ethnic groups.
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good but a dense read
- De Hi5Me en 03-27-18
De: Thomas Sowell
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Intellectuals and Society
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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This is a study of how intellectuals as a class affect modern societies by shaping the climate of opinion in which official policies develop, on issues ranging from economics to law to war and peace. You will hear a withering and clear-eyed critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large.
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Biased but good
- De Justin en 05-06-10
De: Thomas Sowell
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Race and Culture
- A World View
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Thomas Sowell is one of America’s leading voices on matters of race and ethnicity. In his book, Inside American Education, he surveyed the ills of American education from the primary grades to graduate school with “an impressive range of knowledge and acuity of observation”, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now, in his book Race and Culture, he asks the question: “What is it that allows certain groups to get ahead?” and the answer will undoubtedly create debates for years to come.
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Thomas Sowell is rare breed of public intellectual
- De PAUL en 09-03-12
De: Thomas Sowell
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Civil Rights
- Rhetoric or Reality?
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: James Bundy
- Duración: 4 h y 3 m
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Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the civil rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric. In the decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time, and which have proven to be mistaken or even catastrophic to those who were supposed to be helped?
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Thomas Sowell is the is the Vision of the US
- De DCS en 01-30-16
De: Thomas Sowell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Charter Schools and Their Enemies
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- Jesse C Forrest
- 07-17-20
An excellent look into education.
Although this book had much in the way of facts and figures, it really broke down how charter schools are being diminished even when they are showing the ability to level the playing field of so many underprivileged children,
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- Anonymous User
- 07-12-20
Charter school student from 6th to 12th grade.
I hoped to get insight as to why my school fell from grace, I got that and much, much more. Thomas Sowell never disappoints.
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- Daniel H. Johnson, Jr.., MD
- 12-31-20
Concerned about K-12 education? Read this!
Sowell provides us with clear concise information about the effort to deny disadvantaged parents school choice.
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- Quinn MacPherson
- 07-07-20
Everyone should read!
A bit statistics heavy in chapter 2, but solid read. This is a well reasearched pro-charter arguement.
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- Marie
- 11-30-20
Lots of good points
To be honest. I did not listen to this all at once. When I did finish the book I had already decided that private school would be the best option for my son of color (I'm AfAm, son is biracial). Before the book I was pretty pro-charter and remain so.
Towards the end Sowell makes a really good point using Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, which is a short walk from my house. The scores, all around are abysmal. But the building is beautiful and looks like it would belong to any small college. Considering a former mayor and other notables still active in public life attended Dunbar when it was a premier school for AfAm students, Sowell's warnings about what could happen when charter schools are hobbled is made very real by this example.
There are other good points as well.
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- Jax
- 05-06-21
Educational Read
This book is AMAZING!! It is an absolute MUST READ, for ALL parents!! It will change the way that you think about education and schooling, and provides citations for you to verify its information!
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-03-21
attention parents
If you're a parent considering charter schools, this book is a must read. There's a lot of information that I had absolutely no idea about.
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- Mr. Mole
- 01-31-22
Fact-based book exposes how we're All being played
i got this on audible and finished it in 3-4 workouts at gym. Its stunning. a must read. Love Dr Sowell bc he explains whats been going on, in simple language we can all understand.
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- Aaron
- 05-04-23
Great book.
This book is amazing. Our education system is terrible, and vested interests are the reason. More people need to know what's going on.
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- Eric Setka
- 03-22-21
A Great Book on a Crucial Issue.
You're doing your children and our future a disservice by not reading this book. A must read for parents and true educators.
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