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Education

Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching

Pope-Ruark Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables

Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...

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Education

School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Steffes Tracy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Second Edition, 2017-2018

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226521770, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 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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Education

MOOCs and Their Afterlives Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education

Losh Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226469454, ISBN: HB: 9780226469317, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

A trio of headlines in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" seem to say it all: in 2013, "A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves"; in 2014, "Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise", and in 2015, "The MOOC Hype Fades". At the beginning of the 2010s, M...

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Education

Write Your Way In Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay

Toor Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226383897, ISBN: HB: 9780226383750, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
164 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future – or at least where you'll spend the next four years in college – is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off...

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Education

What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226480817, ISBN: HB: 9780226480787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to...

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Mathematics

Reference

Everyday Mathematics for Parents What You Need to Know to Help Your Child Succeed

ISBN: PB: 9780226265483, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 67 halftones, 177 line drawings, 6 tables

The Everyday Mathematics (EM) program was developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and is now used in more than 185,000 classrooms by almost three million students. Its research-based learning delivers the kinds of re...

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Education

Paying the Price College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Goldrick-Rab Sara

ISBN: PB: 9780226527147, ISBN: HB: 9780226404349, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 21 tables

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with "Paying the Price", she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite...

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Education

Elements of Teaching Second Edition

Banner James M. Jr., Cannon Harold C., Delbanco Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300218558, Yale University Press, June 2017
176 pp., 21x14 cm

A newly revised edition of this classic work, exploring the diverse qualities essential for teaching in today's educational environment. According to Banner and Cannon, to be an effective teacher requires much more than technical skill. Great teachi...

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Education

Case for Contention Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools

Zimmerman Jonathan, Robertson Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226456348, ISBN: HB: 9780226456201, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such to...

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