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Education

Far Away from the Tigers A Year in the Classroom with Internationally Adopted Children

Katch Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226425788, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
176 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

Over the past three decades, more than a quarter of a million children have become citizens of the United States through international adoption. Kindergarten teacher Jane Katch recently found herself with three such children in her class: Katya, born...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Conversations with John L'Heureux

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Education

Making Failure Pay For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools

Koyama Jill P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451749, ISBN: HB: 9780226451732, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies – the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations – and to pay them with federal funds".Maki...

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Education

Nature

Teaching Children Science Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

Kohlstedt Sally Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226449906, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the fir...

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History of Art

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Looking at European Frames A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

Karraker D. Gene

ISBN: PB: 9780892369812, Getty Publications, March 2010
88 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 black&white, 2 line drawings

This is a concise yet detailed and informative guide to the terms, styles, and techniques of European frame making. Works of art in their own right, frames play an essential and often overlooked role in complementing the art works they surround. The...

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History of Art

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California Missions History, Art, and Preservation

Kimbro Edna, Costello Julia, Ball Tevvy

ISBN: HB: 9780892369836, Getty Publications, November 2009
276 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 170 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

This title presents a superbly illustrated and discerning exploration of the history, heritage, and future of California's Missions. Combining an engaging narrative with historical paintings, archival photographs, and recent full-colour photography,...

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Education

Beyond Methods Macrostrategies for Language Teaching

Kumaravadivelu B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300095739, Yale University Press, February 2003
320 pp., 23.3x15.5 cm, illus.

In this work, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced language teachers develop a systematic, coherent and personal theory of practice. His book offers to provide the tools a teacher needs...

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Education

How to Study Suggestions for High-School and College Students

Kornhauser Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451176, ISBN: HB: 9780226451183, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
64 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm

A complete guide for successful studying, "How to Study" is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at the University of Chicago, this smart book has helped generations of students throughout the countr...

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