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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

Behind the Academic Curtain How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD

Furstenberg Frank F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226066103, ISBN: HB: 9780226066073, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future...

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Education

Individual Differences

Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575866246, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This concept indicated a shift away from the emphasis on communal, classr...

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Education

Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction

Tyler Ralph W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086507, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a...

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Education

Top Student, Top School? How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College

Walton Radford Alexandria

ISBN: PB: 9780226041001, ISBN: HB: 9780226040950, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 tables, 18 line illus.

Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation's very best universities. Yet in "Top Student, Top School?", A...

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Education

These Kids Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School

Nygreen Kysa

ISBN: PB: 9780226031569, ISBN: HB: 9780226031422, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 6 tables

Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In "These Kids", Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering...

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Education

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities

Bloomfield Cucchiara Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226016825, ISBN: HB: 9780226016658, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 2 figures, 9 tables

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up – in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a s...

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Education

Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Adely Fida

ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...

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Education

Political Science

Education, Justice, and Democracy

Allen Danielle S., Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...

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Education

American Studies in Dialogue Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique

Oppermann Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9783593393179, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
300 pp., 21.3x14 cm

American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars – armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research – flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessar...

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