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Navigating Tenure and Beyond A Guide for Early Career Faculty

Christopher Sundar A.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970437, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2019
168 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 10 line drawings

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situat...

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Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Third Edition, 2018-2019

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226578781, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Wineburg Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780226357218, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become cliches: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but...

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Education

Talking Art The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226560212, ISBN: HB: 9780226560182, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

In "Talking Art", acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master's-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fi...

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Education

Education in a New Society Renewing the Sociology of Education

Mehta Jal, Davies Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226517421, ISBN: HB: 9780226517391, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 tables

In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of in...

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Navigating Conflict How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School

Morrill Calvin, Musheno Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226523736, ISBN: HB: 9780226538761, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 line drawings, 14 tables

Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In "Navigating Conflict", Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban...

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Patriotic Education in a Global Age

Curren Randall, Dorn Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226552392, ISBN: HB: 9780226552255, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating nationa...

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Philosophy

Education and Equality

Allen Danielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...

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Education

Educational Goods Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

Brighouse Harry, Ladd Helen F., Loeb Susanna, Swift Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226514178, ISBN: HB: 9780226514031, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings

We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education – what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In "Educational...

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America

American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education

Mattingly Paul H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226505268, ISBN: HB: 9780226505121, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...

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