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Common Core: A Story of School Terrorism by Joel Spring (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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Common Core, A Story of School Terrorism is winner of the Society of Professors of Education book award for 2014. Intrigue, politics, and romance collide in this satirical novel about school reform.

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Common Core, A Story of School Terrorism is winner of the Society of Professors of Education book award for 2014. Intrigue, politics, and romance collide in this satirical vel about school reform. As it opens, the US Secretary of education is poisoned, teachers change students' answers on a state test, a charter school is bombed and a shadowy plan to build a teacher robot to replace human teachers is revealed. Declaring the poisoning and bombing terrorist acts, Homeland Security and the FBI begin an investigation into a complex world of for-profit schools, educational investment companies, politicians, international culture wars, and a host of special interest groups ranging from neo-Nazi organizations to radical anti-testing groups. FBI Agent Tim Geary, a hero of the Boston Marathon terrorist investigation, leads the search for the killers. What he discovers is an intricate financial and political network linking the Common Core Investment Fund, which supports corporatizing public schools and bribes Chinese officials involved in building the teacher robot, with Brightstone, a testing and publishing giant, and Kiwi, a major techlogy company selling products to schools. As the mystery unfolds, China's Ministry of State Security and the Hanban struggle with the US State Department and CIA to control the language and culture of the teacher robot, while Cincinnati Teachers Union's President Felicia Cochran leads a national campaign to save public schools from corporatization and takeover by for-profit companies. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and suspenseful, the startling finale of this page-turner reveals who did what to whom and why!

Product Identifiers

PublisherPhoenix Books

ISBN-100615873545

ISBN-139780615873541

eBay Product ID (ePID)183543443

Product Key Features

Book TitleCommon Core : a Story of School Terrorism

Number of Pages188 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreDrama, Fiction

TypeTextbook

AuthorJoel Spring

FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Height229mm

Width152mm

Weight263g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication23/10/2013

SubjectDrama Texts, Plays & Screenplays

Intended AudienceTrade

Spine10mm

Country of PublicationUnited States

Author BiographyJoel Spring is an educator, novelist, and scholarly writer. Common Core: A Story of School Terrorism is his third published novel. He has published over twenty scholarly books on education and globalization. His current novel reflects his involvement in school reform.

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