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Creating Culture through Health Leadership

Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...

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Cost of Inclusion How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses

Silver Blake R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704050, ISBN: HB: 9780226703862, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables

Young people are told that college is a place where they will "find themselves" by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image col...

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Charter School City What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education

Harris Douglas N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226694641, ISBN: HB: 9780226671789, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables

In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment – eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with...

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Constant Struggle Deaf Education in New South Wales since World War II

Malone Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9781944838492, Gallaudet University Press, May 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

Deaf education in New South Wales has made tremendous progress since the end of World War II, yet issues remain for students from their early years of education through secondary high school. Naomi Malone traces the roots of these issues and argues t...

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Case Studies in Deaf Education Inquiry, Application, and Resources

Guardino Caroline, Beal Jennifer S., Cannon Joanna E., Voss Jenna, Bergeron Jessica P.

ISBN: HB: 9781944838188, Gallaudet University Press, July 2018
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 38 figures, 4 tables

"Case Studies in Deaf Education" provides comprehensive materials that will prepare prospective teachers to work with the diverse spectrum of students who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) and empower them to better understand these complex and...

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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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Case for Contention Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools

Zimmerman Jonathan, Robertson Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226456348, ISBN: HB: 9780226456201, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such to...

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Connecting in College How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success

McCabe Janice M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409528, ISBN: HB: 9780226409498, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 11 tables

We all know that good study habits, supportive parents, and engaged instructors are all keys to getting good grades in college. But as Janice M. McCabe shows in this illuminating study, there is one crucial factor determining a student's academic suc...

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Change and Promise Bilingual Deaf Education and Deaf Culture in Latin America

Gerner de Garcia Barbara, Becker Karnopp Lodenir

ISBN: HB: 9781563686740, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 photographs, 11 figures, 6 tables

Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this...

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Education

Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers

Shapiro Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780984201099, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
98 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Academics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a private matter between a teacher and his or her students...

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