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Adjunct Underclass How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Childress Herb

ISBN: HB: 9780226496665, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 23 tables

Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car... to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly...

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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

Law

Free Speech on Campus

Chemerinsky Erwin, Gillman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780300240016, ISBN: HB: 9780300226560, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14 cm

Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning envir...

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Education

Patriotic Education in a Global Age

Curren Randall, Dorn Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226552392, ISBN: HB: 9780226552255, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating nationa...

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Education

Purposeful Graduate Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

Clydesdale Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226418889, ISBN: HB: 9780226236346, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal – career training – and college stu...

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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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Education

Winds of Freedom Addressing Challenges to the University

Casper Gerhard

ISBN: HB: 9780300196917, Yale University Press, April 2014
248 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit and courage, confront head-on the most pressing c...

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Education

Improvement by Design The Promise of Better Schools

Cohen David K., Peurach Donald J., Glazer Joshua L., Gates Karen E., Goldin Simona

ISBN: PB: 9780226089386, ISBN: HB: 9780226089249, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school system...

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Education

American Universities in a Global Market

Clotfelter Charles T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226110479, ISBN: HB: 9780226110448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 85 tables, 72 line illus.

In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in ot...

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Education

Classrooms All Young Children Need Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

Cooper Patricia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115245, ISBN: HB: 9780226115238, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
248 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded by parents, educators, and other professionals for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. In "The Classrooms All Young Childre...

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