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Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Ewing Eve L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526164, ISBN: HB: 9780226526027, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools". That's how Eve L. Ewing opens "Ghosts in the Schoolyard": describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other sc...

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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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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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Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Adely Fida

ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...

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Governing Educational Desire Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China

Kipnis Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226437552, ISBN: HB: 9780226437538, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
224 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined – until now".Governing Educational Desire" explores the cultural, political, and econo...

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