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Stone Soup Experiment Why Cultural Boundaries Persist

Downing Wilson Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780226289809, ISBN: HB: 9780226289779, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Stone Soup Experiment" is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them...

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Education

General

Secret Lives of Teachers

ISBN: HB: 9780226313627, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Welcome to "East Hudson", an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have litt...

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Education

Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

Moss Hilary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102986, ISBN: HB: 9780226542492, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 7 tables

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary...

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Law

Student's Guide to Law School What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters

Ayers Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226067056, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, "A Student's Guide to Law School" is li...

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Education

Service Learning in Interpreter Education Strategies for Extending Student Involvement in the Deaf Community

Shaw Sherry

ISBN: HB: 9781563685552, Gallaudet University Press, April 2013
258 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 3 figures

Institutions of higher learning around the nation have embraced the concept of student civic engagement as part of their curricula, a movement that has spurred administrators in various fields to initiate programs as part of their disciplines. In res...

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Education

Social Constructions of Deafness Examining Deaf Languacultures in Education

Horejes Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685415, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 photos

Thomas P. Horejes's new book focuses on revealing critical knowledge that addresses certain social justice issues, including deafness, language, culture, and deaf education. He conveys this information through discourses about his own experiences bei...

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Education

Gender Studies

Sex Education Debates

Kendall Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922287, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 6 tables

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for...

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Southern Stalemate Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Bonastia Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226063898, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citize...

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Sound Sense Living and Learning with Hearing Loss

Laufer Batinovich Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781563684715, Gallaudet University Press, December 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, tables, figures, illus.

One out of every eight people between the ages of 18 and 67 in the United States has a hearing loss, estimated as 12 percent of the working-age population. "Sound Sense: Living and Learning with Hearing Loss" addresses the acute need of these people...

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Schools Betrayed Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education

Neckerman Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569611, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 25 line illus.

The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In "Schools Betrayed", her innovative history of race and urban...

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