The Conversation at Dropout Nation: Dr. Steve Perry on the Need for School Reform
On this month’s Conversation with Editor RiShawn Biddle, principal, school reformer and CNN commentator Dr. Steve Perry discusses his new book, Push Has Come to Shove, explains the steps parents, policymakers, and think tankers must take in overhauling American public education, and takes aim at teachers’ unions, principals and education traditionalists such as Diane Ravitch who defend failure and the Poverty Myth of Education.
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