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Education

Making Up Our Mind What School Choice Is Really About

Ben-Porath Sigal R., Johanek Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226619637, ISBN: HB: 9780226619460, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the Uni...

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Education

Perfect Mess The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

Labaree David F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226637006, ISBN: HB: 9780226250441, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Read the news about America's colleges and universities – rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators – and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labare...

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Education

Student's Guide to Writing College Papers Fifth Edition

Turabian Kate L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430263, ISBN: HB: 9780226494562, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 6 tables

Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper – and for decades Kate L. Turabian's "Student's Guide to Writing College Papers" has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago...

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Education

Testing Charade Pretending to Make Schools Better

Koretz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226644882, ISBN: HB: 9780226408712, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that scho...

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Navigating Tenure and Beyond A Guide for Early Career Faculty

Christopher Sundar A.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970437, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2019
168 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 10 line drawings

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situat...

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Education

Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge

Mordaunt Crook Joe, Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.

Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...

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