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In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done
by Toch, Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195057619
- ISBN 13
- 9780195057614
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Fine. Large, sturdy book, wine cloth spine, blue boards, gilt lettering bright on spine, 325 pages. Tiny light brown spotting to exterior page edges. On title page: "For Sandra with the best wishes, Tom Toch." Very Fine DJ/Near Very Good book.
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- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56361
- Title
- In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done
- Author
- Toch, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195057619
- ISBN 13
- 9780195057614
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Don Mills, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Education Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autographed; Education;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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