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Education

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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Education

Learning in Depth A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling

Egan Kieran

ISBN: HB: 9780226190433, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
232 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm

For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge...

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Education

Far Away from the Tigers A Year in the Classroom with Internationally Adopted Children

Katch Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226425788, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
176 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

Over the past three decades, more than a quarter of a million children have become citizens of the United States through international adoption. Kindergarten teacher Jane Katch recently found herself with three such children in her class: Katya, born...

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Education

Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought A Compendium of Parallel English-Arabic Texts

Cook Bradley J., Malkawi Fathi H.

ISBN: HB: 9780842527637, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2011
545 pp., 23.4x16 cm

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to "seek knowledge, even unto China". Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Conversations with John L'Heureux

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Education

Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses

Arum Richard, Roksa Josipa

ISBN: PB: 9780226028569, ISBN: HB: 9780226028552, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 20 tables, 20 line illus.

In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college w...

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Education

Bong Hits 4 Jesus A Perfect Constitutional Storm in Alaska's Capital

Foster James C.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230897, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2010
373 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In January 2002, for the first time, the Olympic Torch Relay visited Alaska on its way to the Winter Games. When the relay runner and accompanying camera cars passed Juneau-Douglas High School, senior Joseph Frederick and several friends unfurled a f...

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Education

Thinking Student's Guide to College 75 Tips for Getting a Better Education

Roberts Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226721156, ISBN: HB: 9780226721149, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Each fall, thousands of eager freshmen descend on college and university campuses expecting the best education imaginable: inspiring classes taught by top-ranked professors, academic advisors who will guide them to a prestigious job or graduate schoo...

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Education

Making Failure Pay For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools

Koyama Jill P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451749, ISBN: HB: 9780226451732, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies – the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations – and to pay them with federal funds".Maki...

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Education

Schools Betrayed Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education

Neckerman Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569611, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 25 line illus.

The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In "Schools Betrayed", her innovative history of race and urban...

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