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Education

Suddenly Diverse How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality

Turner Erica O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675367, ISBN: HB: 9780226675220, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of US school children now qualify for federally subsidized meals, a mark...

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Education

America

200 Years of the University of Cincinnati Three Volume Set with Slip Case

ISBN: SET: 9781947602489, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, November 2019
187 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 56 colour plates

This limited edition three-volume slipcased set celebrates the bicentennial of the University of Cincinnati. The set consists of hardback editions of "In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati", by urban historian David Stradl...

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Philosophy

Education

Between / Beyond / Hybrid New Essays on Transdisciplinarity

von Sass Hartmut

ISBN: PB: 9783035801743, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

For years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together...

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Public Health

Education

Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors

Kehinde Tolu

ISBN: PB: 9781512603330, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
200 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm

Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...

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Education

Homeschooling The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice

Dwyer James G., Peters Shawn F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226627250, ISBN: HB: 9780226627113, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice", James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling's history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state...

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Education

Adjunct Underclass How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Childress Herb

ISBN: HB: 9780226496665, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 23 tables

Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car... to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly...

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Education

Making Up Our Mind What School Choice Is Really About

Ben-Porath Sigal R., Johanek Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226619637, ISBN: HB: 9780226619460, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the Uni...

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Education

Perfect Mess The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

Labaree David F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226637006, ISBN: HB: 9780226250441, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Read the news about America's colleges and universities – rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators – and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labare...

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Reference

Education

Student's Guide to Writing College Papers Fifth Edition

Turabian Kate L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430263, ISBN: HB: 9780226494562, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 6 tables

Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper – and for decades Kate L. Turabian's "Student's Guide to Writing College Papers" has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago...

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Education

Testing Charade Pretending to Make Schools Better

Koretz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226644882, ISBN: HB: 9780226408712, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that scho...

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