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Education

Broke The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities

Hamilton Laura T., Nielsen Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780226747453, ISBN: HB: 9780226605401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gaine...

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Charter School City What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education

Harris Douglas N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226694641, ISBN: HB: 9780226671789, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables

In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment – eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with...

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Education

Productivity in Higher Education

Hoxby Caroline M., Strange Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780226574585, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 96 line drawings, 72 tables

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in "Productivi...

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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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Myth of Achievement Tests The GED and the Role of Character in American Life

Heckman James J., Humphries John Eric, Kautz Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226324807, ISBN: HB: 9780226100098, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 153 line drawings, 34 tables

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of...

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57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students

Haggerty Kevin D., Doyle Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226280905, ISBN: HB: 9780226280875, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Don't think about why you're applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become "that" student. When it comes to a masters or PhD program, most grad...

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Teaching Embodied Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools

Hayashi Akiko, Tobin Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226263106, ISBN: HB: 9780226263076, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 188 halftones

When we look beyond lesson planning and curricula – those explicit facets that comprise so much of our discussion about education – we remember that teaching is an inherently social activity, shaped by a rich array of implicit habits, comportments, a...

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Democratic Constitution for Public Education

Hill Paul T., Jochim Ashley E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226200682, ISBN: HB: 9780226200545, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 tables

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school – something...

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History of Art

Education

Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies Terminology For Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Updated Edition)

Harping Patricia, Baca Murtha

ISBN: PB: 9781606061503, Getty Publications, December 2013
258 pp., 24x17.8 cm, 68 black&white illus.

This is a practical tool and comprehensive introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This authoritative and detailed volume presents readers with a "how-to" guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloguing and indexing cultural ma...

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Education

Experiencing Education: 1896-2012 Second Edition

Harms William

ISBN: PB: 9781467530590, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
181 pp., 25x17.8 cm, throughout illus.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools were founded in 1896 by John Dewey as a way to apply and test his groundbreaking theories of education. Now, more than a century later, Dewey's approach to education is emulated the world over, and the Lab...

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