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High-Stakes Schooling What America Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform

Bjork Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226309415, ISBN: HB: 9780226309385, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 tables

If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christop...

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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...

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Unsettled Belonging Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11

Abu El-Haj Thea Renda

ISBN: PB: 9780226289465, ISBN: HB: 9780226289328, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

"Unsettled Belonging" tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent...

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Stone Soup Experiment Why Cultural Boundaries Persist

Downing Wilson Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780226289809, ISBN: HB: 9780226289779, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Stone Soup Experiment" is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them...

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University of Chicago A History

Boyer John W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226242514, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
704 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 1...

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Secret Lives of Teachers

ISBN: HB: 9780226313627, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Welcome to "East Hudson", an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have litt...

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Education

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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More than Lore Reminiscences of Marion Talbot

Talbot Marion

ISBN: HB: 9780226316703, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms". In a time when...

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Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education

Anteby Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...

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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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