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Sex Education Debates
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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£25,50
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Tell Me How It Reads Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center
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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£30,00
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Improving Literacy in America Guidelines from Research
ISBN: PB: 9780300194647, Yale University Press, October 2012
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in "silver bullet" solutions such as reducing class size or implementi...
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£17,00
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Knowledge in the Making Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
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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£28,00
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£25,00
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Failing Law Schools
ISBN: HB: 9780226923611, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line illus.
On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisors,...
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£19,00
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Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226037981, ISBN: HB: 9780226037974, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 tables, 4 halftones, 9 line illus.
Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Uncivil Rights Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
ISBN: PB: 9780226660721, ISBN: HB: 9780226660714, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm
Almost fifty years after "Brown v. Board of Education", a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and ci...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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History of Special Education From Isolation to Integration
ISBN: PB: 9781563685514, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
464 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, charts, tables
This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandate...
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£54,00
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Future of History
ISBN: PB: 9780300181692, Yale University Press, May 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm
For more than sixty years, John Lukacs has been writing, teaching, and reading about the past. In this inspired volume, he turns his attention to the future. Throughout "The Future of History", Lukacs reflects on his discipline, eloquently arguing th...
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£19,00
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How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying) A Professor's Inside Advice
ISBN: PB: 9780226304663, ISBN: HB: 9780226304656, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.
After years of preparation and anticipation, many students arrive at college without any real knowledge of the ins and outs of college life. They've been focused on finding the right school and have been carefully guided through the nuances of the ad...
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£10,50
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£39,00
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