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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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Democratic Constitution for Public Education

Hill Paul T., Jochim Ashley E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226200682, ISBN: HB: 9780226200545, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 tables

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school – something...

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Bricks and Mortar The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867397, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The rise of online learning is rapidly transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who – or what – teachers are. In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost. Not on...

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Versions of Academic Freedom From Professionalism to Revolution

Fish Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780226064314, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
192 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full atten...

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Aspiring Adults Adrift Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Arum Richard, Roksa Josipa

ISBN: PB: 9780226197289, ISBN: HB: 9780226191157, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables

Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses – and newspaper opinion pages – as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academical...

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Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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American School Reform What Works, What Fails, and Why

McDonald Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226124728, ISBN: HB: 9780226124698, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, "American School Reform" offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluat...

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Class Warfare Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

Weis Lois, Cipollone Kristin, Jenkins Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226134925, ISBN: HB: 9780226134895, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning...

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Graduate Advisor Handbook A Student-Centered Approach

Shore Bruce M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226011646, ISBN: HB: 9780226011509, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the sink-or-swim world of academia, a great graduate advisor can be a lifesaver. But with university budgets shrinking and free time evaporating, advisors often need a mentor themselves to learn how to best support their advisees. Bruce M. Shore,...

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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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