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Education

Case for Contention Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools

Zimmerman Jonathan, Robertson Emily

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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Education

Colouring Books for Adults

Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book

Schumacher Julie

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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Education

Ambitious Elementary School Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality

McGhee Hassrick Elizabeth, Raudenbush Stephen W., Rosen Lisa

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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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

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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Education

Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

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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Education

Rise of the Research University A Sourcebook

Menand Louis, Reitter Paul, Wellmon Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226414713, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and,...

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Education

Lost Classroom, Lost Community Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America

Brinig Margaret F., Garnett Nicole Stelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226418438, ISBN: HB: 9780226122007, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings, 14 tables

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools – public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations – have open...

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Education

America

Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South

Malczewski Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...

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Education

Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

Justice Benjamin, Macleod Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226400457, ISBN: HB: 9780226400310, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It isn't just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heate...

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Education

Connecting in College How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success

McCabe Janice M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409528, ISBN: HB: 9780226409498, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 11 tables

We all know that good study habits, supportive parents, and engaged instructors are all keys to getting good grades in college. But as Janice M. McCabe shows in this illuminating study, there is one crucial factor determining a student's academic suc...

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