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Education and Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...
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Educational Goods Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making
ISBN: PB: 9780226514178, ISBN: HB: 9780226514031, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings
We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education – what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In "Educational...
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£20,50
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£62,00
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American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226505268, ISBN: HB: 9780226505121, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...
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£79,00
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Intellectual Properties of Learning A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke
ISBN: HB: 9780226487922, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products...
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Language, Power, and Resistance Mainstreaming Deaf Education
ISBN: HB: 9781944838041, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table
The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than in the segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH studen...
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£45,00
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Color of Mind Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice
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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£56,00
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Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables
Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...
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School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940
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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Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Second Edition, 2017-2018
ISBN: HB: 9780226521770, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...
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MOOCs and Their Afterlives Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226469454, ISBN: HB: 9780226469317, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables
A trio of headlines in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" seem to say it all: in 2013, "A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves"; in 2014, "Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise", and in 2015, "The MOOC Hype Fades". At the beginning of the 2010s, M...
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