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Colouring Books for Adults

Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book

Schumacher Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780226467047, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 line drawings

To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes... Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the t...

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Education

Ambitious Elementary School Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality

McGhee Hassrick Elizabeth, Raudenbush Stephen W., Rosen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226456652, ISBN: HB: 9780226456515, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 13 tables

The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequaliti...

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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Education

Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867403, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this companion volume to "Bricks and Mortar", Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the onlin...

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Education

Rise of the Research University A Sourcebook

Menand Louis, Reitter Paul, Wellmon Chad

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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