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  • Public Education for Our Nation's Democracy

    Commentaries on Schooling in America

    by David C. Berliner ...
    Series series
    David Berliner, one of America's foremost educational researchers, issues an urgent message for all those who care about preserving the future of public education, and the future of democracy.Throughout his extraordinary career, educational psychologist David Berliner visited hundreds of classrooms in multiple countries. After many such visits, he wrote short notes about what he saw, felt, and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Collateral Damage

    How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools

    by Sharon L. Nichols, David C. Berliner ...
    Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Becoming Other

    Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

    by David Berliner ...
    Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing experiences. From Napoleon doppelgangers to Philip Roth's alter-ego Nathan Zukerman and Wonder Woman cosplayers to anthropologists going native, he delves into the kaleidoscopic ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    School Communities of Strength

    Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty

    by Peter W. Cookson, Jr. ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 46 min

    In School Communities of Strength, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata, and particularly for the five million American children who live with the extreme material hardship known as deep poverty. This work issues an urgent call to action for K–12 schools to put in place the policies, practices, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Losing Culture

    Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

    by David Berliner ...
    Translated by Dominic Horsfall ...
    We’re losing our culture… our heritage… our traditions… everything is being swept away.Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed?To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism

    by Adele Berlin ...
    Series series The Biblical Resource Series (BRS)
    Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin's study features an additional chapter, "The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut,"by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition "innovative and instructive to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amos

    by Rainer Kessler, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr, Adele Berlin, Erhard Blum, Irmtraud Fischer, Shimon Gesundheit, Walter Groß, Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard M. Levinson, Ed Noort, Helmut Utzschneider, Beate Ego ...
    Translated by David E. Orton ...
    This commentary examines the book of Amos as it appears in the Hebrew Bible: a collection of messages from a prophet in the 8th century BCE who warned that the Kingdom of Israel would fall because of the wrongs of its wealthy elite. Despite this warning, the book ultimately offers hope for a restored future to the survivors in Judah and Israel. The analysis traces how Amos's original message - now ... Read more

    $69.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demoralized

    Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay

    by Doris A. Santoro ...
    Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay offers a timely analysis of professional dissatisfaction that challenges the common explanation of burnout. Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more strategically to retain experienced teachers and make a difference in ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Learning Religion

    Anthropological Approaches

    Edited by David Berliner, Ramon Sarró ...
    Series Book 17 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Anthropology and Nostalgia

    Edited by Olivia Angé, David Berliner ...
    Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume ... Read more

    $23.79 USD