{"product_id":"davontes-inferno-laurel-m-sturt-9780991205103","title":"Davonte's Inferno: Ten Years in the New York Public School Gulag","description":"A TEACHER'S STORY OF FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICAN EDUCATION TODAY. Calling on policy, research, humor and a generous serving of snark, in this cutting edge story irreverent Laurel M. Sturt pulls no punches detailing her bizarre life in the trenches teaching in a high-needs elementary school in the Bronx. With the Alice in Wonderland backdrop of teaching in a school strangled by poverty, No Child Left Behind's \"accountability,\" and Michael Bloomberg's micromanagement, Sturt trains an unflinching eye on the crisis confronting today's educators, delivering a scathing indictment of pretentious education reform driven by a mercenary agenda to privatize a system worth billions. The author charges educators and parents to unite and organize at the grassroots level to fight for this civil rights issue of our time--the right to a decent education--coalescing around proven non-negotiables such as sufficient funding, universal pre-kindergarten, a rich curriculum free from high stakes testing, and the socioeconomic integration of schools. By refusing an apartheid in which the one percent and the ninety-nine percent receive vastly different educations, community by community we can drive back the privatizers, restoring the \"public\" to a system committed to all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurel M. Sturt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0991205103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780991205103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Written Warrior Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d","brand":"Laurel M. Sturt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438089580799,"sku":"9780991205103","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e13835e5-5b1b-45c7-b6cf-0170bcdd3d4e.jpg?v=1777168736","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/davontes-inferno-laurel-m-sturt-9780991205103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}