How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education audiobook runs 6.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Arne Duncan (about 4.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 6.1 hours, it is shorter than 58% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf
3,634 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education is an audiobook by Arne Duncan: a 6.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Arne Duncan, released August 7, 2018, on the Non-Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Arne Duncan
- Released
- August 7, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781508267874
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education audiobook?
How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education runs 6.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.1 hours.
Is the How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education audiobook free?
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Who narrates How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education?
How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education is narrated by Arne Duncan.