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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?" Finding Careers Outside Academia (Third Edition)

Basalla Susan, Debelius Maggie

ISBN: PB: 9780226200408, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student lo...

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Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

Bloomfield Cucchiara Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226016825, ISBN: HB: 9780226016658, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 2 figures, 9 tables

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up – in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a s...

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Illusions of Equality Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950

Buchanan Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685491, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The working lives of Deaf Americans from the mid-1850s to the post-World War II era depended upon strategies created by Deaf community leaders to win and keep jobs through periods of low national employment as well as high. Deaf people typically soug...

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Conflicting Landscapes American Schooling / Alaska Natives

Bates Clifton, Oleksa Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9781578333967, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 halftones

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of changing philosophies of schooling and their effect on generations of Alaska Native st...

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Southern Stalemate Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Bonastia Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226063898, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citize...

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Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

Beasley Maya A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...

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Chicago Handbook for Teachers (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the College Classroom

Brinkley Alan, El-Fakahany Esam, Dessants Betty, Flamm Michael, Forcey Charles B., Ouellett Mathew L., Rothschild Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226075280, ISBN: HB: 9780226075273, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm

Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself".The Chicago H...

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History of Art

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Teaching in the Art Museum Interpretation as Experience

Burnham Rika, Kai-Kee Elliott

ISBN: PB: 9781606060582, Getty Publications, April 2011
136 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This title offers an insightful exploration of the mission, history, theory, practice and future of museum education. At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constit...

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Photography

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Looking at Photographs A Guide to Technical Terms (Revised Edition)

Baldwin Gordon, Jurgens Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780892369713, Getty Publications, November 2009
104 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 61 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

This is a comprehensive guide to the most frequently used technical terms used in photography – from the earliest processes to the latest technologies. From its origins at the end of the 1830s, photography has continued to evolve both aesthetically a...

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Forging Deaf Education in Nineteenth-Century France Biographical Sketches of Bebian, Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc

Berthier Ferdinand

ISBN: HB: 9781563684159, Gallaudet University Press, October 2009
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos

In 1811, deaf student Ferdinand Berthier commenced his education at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris under its director Abbe Sicard and his teachers Auguste Bebian, Jean Massieu, and Laurent Clerc. Their tutelage eventually led Berthier t...

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