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  • The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling

    by J. Kafka ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in the second half of the twentieth century in response to pressures exerted by teachers, parents, students, principals, and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    by Dana Goldstein ...
    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood

    by Robyn Ewing, Jon Callow, Kathleen Rushton ...
    This book provides pre-service and practising teachers with an integrated approach to language and literacy learning in early childhood. Written by leading academics in the field, it explores how children learn to talk, play using language, become literate and make meaning - from birth through to the pre-school years. Emphasising the importance of imagination and the arts in language learning, ... Read more

    $67.29 USD

  • Parkin

    Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man

    by William Christian ...
    George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Glory's Shadow

    The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America

    by Catherine S. Manegold ...
    In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change. Established as protection against slave insurrections feared by the white minority of Charleston, South Carolina, a generation later The Citadel was a school of privilege for young white men. Through two world wars it grew in size and reputation, proudly providing the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Sophists

    An Introduction

    by Patricia O'Grady ...
    The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. The first to arrive, in about 444 BC, was Protagoras. During the last half of the fifth century BC he was followed by a succession of 'new age' itinerant instructors who were skilled in teaching. Mainly they taught the young ambitious men of Athens, instilling in them the skills they sought in order to become ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Linguistic Foundations

    Edited by Anthony P R Howatt, Richard C Smith ...
    Series series Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics
    This volume forms part of a five volume set charting the progress of the nineteenth century movement which was instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. It was during this period that for the first time, co-operation between phoneticians and teachers culminated in the publication of works that were instrumental in establishing the 'applied ... Read more

    $585.00 USD

  • History The Teacher

    Education Inspired by Humanity's Story

    by Frederick Gould ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Organized chronologically this volume examines education in England in the early twentieth century by discussing education through the ages, from pre-history to 1919. The author’s proposals were radical at the time of original education, although they embrace concepts which are now taken for granted in schools: that education of the "whole person" is vital; that the arts should enjoy equal ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Democracy and Schooling in California

    The Legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds

    by K. Weiler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Black Campus Movement

    A History of Black Student Activism

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provided the first national study of when Black students organized, demanded, and protested against racism in almost every US State between 1965 and 1972. The book illuminated the complex context and prehistory for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history. Based on records from more than three hundred colleges and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Remaking Home Economics

    Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times

    by Sharon Y. Nickols, Gwen Kay, Jorge Atiles, Caroline Crocoll, Jane Schuchardt, Rima Apple, Elizabeth Andress, Rachel Louise Moran, Richard Lewis0, Emma Laing1, Linda Przybyszewski2, Margarete Ordon3, Penny Ralston4, Peggy Meszaros5, Virginia Moxley6, Billie Collier7, Susan F. Clark8, Stephanie M. Foss9 ...
    An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women’s studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field’s history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to “bring back home economics” miss the point that it never went away, say Sharon Y. Nickols and Gwen Kay—home economics has been remaking itself, in ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance

    The Politics of Tuition Fees and Subsidies in OECD Countries,1945–2015

    by Julian L. Garritzmann ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees whilst for others their education is free. What are the redistributional consequences of these different tuition-subsidy systems? Analysing the variety of existing systems, Garritzmann shows that across the advanced democracies “Four ... Read more

    $80.99 USD