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Education

Broke The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities

Hamilton Laura T., Nielsen Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780226747453, ISBN: HB: 9780226605401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gaine...

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Philosophy

Education

Between / Beyond / Hybrid New Essays on Transdisciplinarity

von Sass Hartmut

ISBN: PB: 9783035801743, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

For years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together...

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Education

America

Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South

Malczewski Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...

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Education

Beyond the University Why Liberal Education Matters

Roth Michael S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212662, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Contentious debates over the benefits – or drawbacks – of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism – often calling for more...

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Education

Bricks and Mortar The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867397, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The rise of online learning is rapidly transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who – or what – teachers are. In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost. Not on...

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Education

Other

Being a Language Teacher

Lopez-Burton Norma

ISBN: PB: 9780300186895, Yale University Press, April 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Being a Language Teacher" provides an innovative, personal approach to second language teaching. Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through key pedagogical strategies while encouraging produc...

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Education

Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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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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Reference

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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Sign Language

Education

Black Deaf Students A Model for Educational Success

Williamson Carolyn E.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685941, Gallaudet University Press, June 2013
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 tables, 1 figure

Research has identified resilience as a key element to success in school. Carolyn Williamson searches out ways to develop, reinforce, and alter the factors that encourage resilience in African American deaf and hard of hearing students. To find the i...

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