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Write Your Way In Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780226383897, ISBN: HB: 9780226383750, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
164 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future – or at least where you'll spend the next four years in college – is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off...
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What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226480817, ISBN: HB: 9780226480787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Everyday Mathematics for Parents What You Need to Know to Help Your Child Succeed
ISBN: PB: 9780226265483, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 67 halftones, 177 line drawings, 6 tables
The Everyday Mathematics (EM) program was developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and is now used in more than 185,000 classrooms by almost three million students. Its research-based learning delivers the kinds of re...
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£10,50
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Paying the Price College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9780226527147, ISBN: HB: 9780226404349, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 21 tables
If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with "Paying the Price", she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite...
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Elements of Teaching Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300218558, Yale University Press, June 2017
176 pp., 21x14 cm
A newly revised edition of this classic work, exploring the diverse qualities essential for teaching in today's educational environment. According to Banner and Cannon, to be an effective teacher requires much more than technical skill. Great teachi...
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£12,99
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Case for Contention Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226456348, ISBN: HB: 9780226456201, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such to...
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£17,00
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£51,00
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Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book
ISBN: PB: 9780226467047, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 line drawings
To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes... Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the t...
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£11,50
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Ambitious Elementary School Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780226456652, ISBN: HB: 9780226456515, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 13 tables
The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequaliti...
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£56,50
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Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings
At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...
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£15,00
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£45,00
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Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School
ISBN: PB: 9781575867403, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this companion volume to "Bricks and Mortar", Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the onlin...
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