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Segregation by Experience Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades

Keys Adair Jennifer, Sanchez-Suzuki Colegrove Kiyomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226765617, ISBN: HB: 9780226765587, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 tables

Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities. Some teachers engage with their students' ideas in ways that make learning co...

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Philosophy

Education

Spare the Rod Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools

Scribner Campbell F., Warnick Bryan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226785707, ISBN: HB: 9780226785677, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warner investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of...

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Education

Standing for Reason The University in a Dogmatic Age

Sexton John, Brown Gordon

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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Education

Suddenly Diverse How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality

Turner Erica O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675367, ISBN: HB: 9780226675220, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of US school children now qualify for federally subsidized meals, a mark...

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Education

Safe Enough Spaces A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses

Roth Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300234855, Yale University Press, October 2019
160 pp., 21x14 cm

n this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the...

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Reference

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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Biography & Memoires

Education

Schola Ludens Europaeus Papers Offered to Roland Naul

Scheuer Claude, Dreiskنmper Dennis, Holzweg Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781782551362, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2018
300 pp., 21x14.7 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This collection of essays celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor Roland Naul. The chapters, written by colleagues and friends, illustrate the development of sport and physical activity research over four decades. The objectives were to give an ove...

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America

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

Schooling Selves Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education

Cave Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226367866, ISBN: HB: 9780226367729, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 8 tables

Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have at...

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Popular Science

Education

Science Blogging The Essential Guide

Wilcox Christie, Brookshire Bethany, Goldman Jason G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197556, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-...

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