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Summary: In her book Ghosts In The Schoolyard, University of Chicago scholar Eve Ewing asks a central question about the 2013 mass closings of Chicago Public Schools: If the schools were so bad, why did people fight so hard to save them? Her investigation is a deep and nuanced investigation of the public school system that reveals important lessons about how we conduct education policy. Music used: Building The Sled, Gaddy, Are We Loose Yet, Roundpine, Thoothless Slope, Children of Lemuel by Blue Dot Session