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Education

Class Warfare Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

Weis Lois, Cipollone Kristin, Jenkins Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226134925, ISBN: HB: 9780226134895, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning...

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Education

Graduate Advisor Handbook A Student-Centered Approach

Shore Bruce M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226011646, ISBN: HB: 9780226011509, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the sink-or-swim world of academia, a great graduate advisor can be a lifesaver. But with university budgets shrinking and free time evaporating, advisors often need a mentor themselves to learn how to best support their advisees. Bruce M. Shore,...

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Education

General

When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Education

Talent Wants to Be Free Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

Lobel Orly

ISBN: HB: 9780300166279, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentaliti...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Education

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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Education

Turning the Tide Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren

Oliva Gina A., Risser Lytle Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781563685996, Gallaudet University Press, February 2014
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Both Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle know what it is like to be the only deaf student in a mainstream school. Though they became successful educators, they recognize the need to research the same isolation experienced by other deaf and hard of h...

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