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  • The One Best System

    A History of American Urban Education

    The One Best System presents a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America's most influential institutions. At the same time it is a narrative in which the participants themselves speak out: farm children and factory workers, frontier teachers and city superintendents, black parents and elite reformers. And it encompasses both the achievements and the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Tinkering toward Utopia

    A Century of Public School Reform

    For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans’ faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices.In ... Read more

    $31.09 USD

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership at 2050

    Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises

    This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested social space, the implications of which are explored in a post industrial, digital age.The ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • No Citizen Left Behind

    Series series Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ;
    While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Our Underachieving Colleges

    A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition

    by Derek Bok ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

    The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

    by Peter Levine ...
    Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

    Now in its fifth edition! An indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the future of American colleges and universities.Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as a lens for examining significant issues within American society. First published in 1998, American Higher ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Public Education Under Siege

    Edited by Michael B. Katz, Mike Rose ...
    Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available to children in different municipalities still vary enormously, and despite landmark cases of the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Schools or Markets?

    Commercialism, Privatization, and School-business Partnerships

    Edited by Deron R. Boyles ...
    This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include:*privatization of school food services;*oil company ads that act as educational policy statements;*a parent's view of his child's experiences in a school that ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD