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How Schools Really Matter Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
ISBN: PB: 9780226733227, ISBN: HB: 9780226733197, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 figures
Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal – that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools se...
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£13,00
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£76,00
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Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors
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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£19,00
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Homeschooling The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice
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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£57,00
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Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
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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£15,00
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£45,00
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Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School
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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£51,00
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High-Stakes Schooling What America Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226309415, ISBN: HB: 9780226309385, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 tables
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christop...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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High-Performing Preschool Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms
ISBN: PB: 9780226260952, ISBN: HB: 9780226260815, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 line drawings
"The High-Performing Preschool" takes readers into the lives of three- and four-year-old Head Start students during their first year of school and focuses on the centerpiece of their school day: story acting. In this activity, students act out storie...
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£49,00
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How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education
ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables
The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...
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History of Gallaudet University 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution
ISBN: HB: 9781563685958, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 25 illus., 225 photos
On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment,...
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History of Special Education From Isolation to Integration
ISBN: PB: 9781563685514, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
464 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, charts, tables
This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandate...
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