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Education

How Schools Really Matter Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Downey Douglas B.

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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Homeschooling The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice

Dwyer James G., Peters Shawn F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226627250, ISBN: HB: 9780226627113, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice", James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling's history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state...

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Education

Color of Mind Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice

Darby Derrick, Rury John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226525358, ISBN: HB: 9780226525211, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 tables

American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In "The Color of Mind", Derrick Darby an...

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Education

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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High-Performing Preschool Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

Dowley McNamee Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226260952, ISBN: HB: 9780226260815, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 line drawings

"The High-Performing Preschool" takes readers into the lives of three- and four-year-old Head Start students during their first year of school and focuses on the centerpiece of their school day: story acting. In this activity, students act out storie...

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History of Art

Education

Foreign Exchange (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)

Deliss Clementine, Mutumba Yvette

ISBN: PB: 9783037346686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2014
320 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research acro...

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Tell Me How It Reads Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center

Day Babcock Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9781563685484, Gallaudet University Press, December 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables

Deaf students are attending mainstream postsecondary institutions in increasing numbers, raising the stakes for the complicated and multifaceted task of tutoring deaf students at these schools. Common tutoring practices used with hearing students do...

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Knowledge in the Making Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities

DelFattore Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300188141, ISBN: HB: 9780300111811, Yale University Press, September 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How free are students and teachers to express unpopular ideas in public schools and universities? Not free enough, Joan DelFattore suggests. Wading without hesitation into some of the most contentious issues of our times, she investigates battles ove...

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Looking at Paintings A Guide to Technical Terms (Revised Edition)

Doherty Tiarna, Woollett Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780892369720, Getty Publications, November 2009
100 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 71 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.

Fully revised and updated, here is a concise and authoritative guide to the technical terms most commonly used in painting. What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These are just some 100+ terms that are explained and illustrated in...

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Learning in and Through Art A Guide to Discipline Based Art Education

Dobbs Stephen Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892364947, Getty Publications, March 2006
150 pp., 28x21.6 cm, illus.

This Handbook provides a practical, straightforward guide to the theory and practice of discipline-based art education. This comprehensive approach to art education has transformed the way students create and understand art, it also offers opportunit...

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