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Myths and Traditions of Central European University Culture
ISBN: PB: 9788024643809, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Lukas Fasora and Jiri Hanus take a diachronic approach to investigating the issues facing higher l...
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Making Up Our Mind What School Choice Is Really About
ISBN: PB: 9780226619637, ISBN: HB: 9780226619460, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings
If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse? Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force? With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the Uni...
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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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Myth of Achievement Tests The GED and the Role of Character in American Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226324807, ISBN: HB: 9780226100098, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 153 line drawings, 34 tables
Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of...
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More than Lore Reminiscences of Marion Talbot
ISBN: HB: 9780226316703, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table
The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms". In a time when...
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Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables
Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...
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Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities
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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Making Failure Pay For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226451749, ISBN: HB: 9780226451732, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A little-discussed aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that requires failing schools to hire after-school tutoring companies – the largest of which are private, for-profit corporations – and to pay them with federal funds".Maki...
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