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Rise of the Research University A Sourcebook
ISBN: PB: 9780226414713, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and,...
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Lost Classroom, Lost Community Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America
ISBN: PB: 9780226418438, ISBN: HB: 9780226122007, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings, 14 tables
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools – public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations – have open...
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Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South
ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...
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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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Connecting in College How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success
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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Diversity Bargain And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities
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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£21,00
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Change and Promise Bilingual Deaf Education and Deaf Culture in Latin America
ISBN: HB: 9781563686740, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 photographs, 11 figures, 6 tables
Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this...
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Growing Each Other Up When Our Children Become Our Teachers
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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Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eightieth Edition, 2015-2016
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
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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