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Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
ISBN: HB: 9780226341811, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions led the world. How did America become the center o...
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How Schools Really Matter Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
ISBN: PB: 9780226733227, ISBN: HB: 9780226733197, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 figures
Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal – that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools se...
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£76,00
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Other Boston Busing Story What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line
ISBN: PB: 9781684580293, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing wi...
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Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content
ISBN: PB: 9780300223293, Yale University Press, August 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A contemporary guide to foreign language education, this book presents the latest developments and issues in the field of applied linguistics. It leads instructors to make vital connections between theory and practice and to develop innovative lesson...
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£45,00
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Digital Divisions How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226726694, ISBN: HB: 9780226726557, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 6 tables
In the digital age, schools are a central part of a nationwide effort to make access to technology more equitable, so that all young people, regardless of identity or background, have the opportunity to engage with the technologies that are essential...
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Standing for Reason The University in a Dogmatic Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300251869, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>John Sexton argues that over six decades, a "secular dogmatism", impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are &qu...
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Institutional Literacies Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication
ISBN: PB: 9780226699349, ISBN: HB: 9780226699202, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 2 line drawings
Information technologies have become an integral part of writing and communication courses, shaping the ways students and teachers think about and do their work. But, too often, teachers and other educational stakeholders take a passive or simply rea...
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£72,00
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Cost of Inclusion How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses
ISBN: PB: 9780226704050, ISBN: HB: 9780226703862, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables
Young people are told that college is a place where they will "find themselves" by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image col...
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Charter School City What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226694641, ISBN: HB: 9780226671789, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables
In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment – eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with...
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£48,00
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
ISBN: PB: 9780226526164, ISBN: HB: 9780226526027, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables
"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools". That's how Eve L. Ewing opens "Ghosts in the Schoolyard": describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other sc...
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