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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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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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Psychological and Psychoeducational Assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Adolescents

Miller Margery S., Thomas-Presswood Tania N., Metz Kurt, Lukomski Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781563686504, Gallaudet University Press, January 2016
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 2 figures

The obstacles to valid and meaningful assessment of deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents are great, yet professionals are regularly asked to conduct comprehensive evaluations to determine resource and program eligibility, test modificati...

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Off to College A Guide for Parents

Martin Roger H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226295633, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For many parents, sending their child off to college can be a disconcerting leap. After years spent helping with homework, attending parent-teacher conferences, and catching up after school, college life represents a world of unknowns. What really ha...

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Fair Access to Higher Education Global Perspectives

Mountford-Zimdars Anna, Sabbagh Daniel, Post David

ISBN: PB: 9780226250922, University of Chicago Press, January 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does "fairness" mean internationally in terms of access to higher education? Increased competition for places in elite universities has prompted a worldwide discussion regarding the fairness of student admission policies. Despite budget cuts fro...

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Teaching and Learning in Bilingual Classrooms New Scholarship

Mulrooney Kristin J.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686238, Gallaudet University Press, January 2015
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, figures, tables

A new initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education today by methodically examining and assessing the vital component of classroom interaction. This collection presents research by five professors wh...

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American School Reform What Works, What Fails, and Why

McDonald Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226124728, ISBN: HB: 9780226124698, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, "American School Reform" offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluat...

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Teaching the Museum Careers in Museum Education

Melber Leah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253923, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Education departments in museums of all kinds serve millions of students and adult learners every year, using the objects and other resources of the museum to teach and inspire. The rapidly growing field of museum education provides hands-on, experie...

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Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

Moss Hilary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102986, ISBN: HB: 9780226542492, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 7 tables

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary...

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Improving Literacy in America Guidelines from Research

Morrison Frederick J., Bachman Heather J., McDonald Connor Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780300194647, Yale University Press, October 2012
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in "silver bullet" solutions such as reducing class size or implementi...

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