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Diversity Bargain And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

Warikoo Natasha K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226400143, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene – if at all – to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter...

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Growing Each Other Up When Our Children Become Our Teachers

Lawrence-Lightfoot Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780226188409, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From growing their children, parents grow themselves, learning the lessons their children teach".Growing up", then, is as much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of childhood. While countless books have been written about the challenges o...

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Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eightieth Edition, 2015-2016

Kaye Elizabeth A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261935, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
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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Purposeful Graduate Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

Clydesdale Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226418889, ISBN: HB: 9780226236346, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal – career training – and college stu...

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Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers

Shapiro Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780984201099, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
98 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Academics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a private matter between a teacher and his or her students...

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Schooling Selves Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

Cave Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226367866, ISBN: HB: 9780226367729, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 8 tables

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have at...

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What Every Science Student Should Know

Bauer Justin L., Jung Kim Yoo, Zureick Andrew H., Lee Daniel K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198880, ISBN: HB: 9780226198743, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 6 tables

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students... We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future...

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Women Studies

Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success

Hamilton

ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables

Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...

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What Is Education?

Jackson Philip W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226381343, ISBN: HB: 9780226389387, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
136 pp., 20.5x14 cm

One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is". Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the ne...

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Living with Moral Disagreement The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action

Moses Michele S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226344386, ISBN: HB: 9780226344249, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policies – espec...

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