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Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Difficile de croire qu’il n’a pas quarante ans, on lui en donnerait quinze de plus et, bien qu’étant de peu son cadet, Édouard se sent devant lui assigné au rôle de l’enfant turbulent face au vieux sage. Un vieux sage malicieux d’ailleurs, amical, beaucoup plus abordable qu’à Moscou, mais on devine derrière cette bonhomie une condescendance d’homme
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Limonov (Fiction) (French Edition)
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
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Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
According to the Ministry of Education, more than 80 percent of Chinese students returned after completing their studies abroad, which, in historical terms, was unprecedented. There had never been another authoritarian nation in which so many prosperous and educated young people left to study in democratic societies and then willingly came back.
Peter Hessler • Other Rivers
He’d go and find the most underserved school in the area—the kind of school that made seven-year-olds line up in the cold at 7:15 a.m. for a security check that took almost an hour to pass through, making them late to class, only to then expel them for tardiness. The kind of school that turned a blind eye to school security officers who maced kids
... See moreTia Williams • Seven Days in June
Like most upper-crust Hong Kongers, Eddie also possessed what was perhaps the ultimate membership card—Canadian Permanent Resident Cards for his entire family (a safe haven in case the powers that be in Beijing ever pulled a Tiananmen again).