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  • Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice

    Change Without Reform in American Education

    by Larry Cuban ...
    **2015 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT)A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice is a provocative culminating statement from one of America’s most insightful education scholars and leaders.* ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Tinkering toward Utopia

    A Century of Public School Reform

    by David B. Tyack, Larry Cuban ...
    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

  • The Enduring Classroom

    Teaching Then and Now

    by Larry Cuban ...
    A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.The quality and effectiveness of teaching are a constant subject of discussion within the profession and among the broader public. Most of that conversation focuses on the question of how teachers should teach. In The Enduring Classroom, veteran teacher and scholar of education Larry Cuban explores different ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Confessions of a School Reformer

    by Larry Cuban ...
    In Confessions of a School Reformer, eminent historian of education Larry Cuban reflects on nearly a century of education reforms and his experiences with them as a student, educator, and administrator.Cuban begins his own story in the 1930s, when he entered first grade at a Pittsburgh public school, the youngest son of Russian immigrants who placed great stock in the promises of education. With a ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Teachers and Machines

    The Classroom of Technology Since 1920

    by Larry Cuban ...
    “Will undoubtedly be cited in the future as the major source on the history of technology and teaching in the classroom.”—History of Education Quarterly“Through Cuban’s work we can develop an understanding for how teachers define their jobs in ways that outside innovators have never appreciated. His work thus contributes a much needed vision from within.”—Educational Policy ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Oversold and Underused

    Computers in the Classroom

    by Larry Cuban ...
    Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve academic learning and prepare students for an information-based workplace.But just how valid is this argument? In Oversold and Underused, one of the most respected voices in American education ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Blackboard and the Bottom Line

    Why Schools Can't Be Businesses

    by Larry Cuban ...
    "Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • How Teachers Taught

    Constancy and Change in American Classrooms, 18901990

    by Larry Cuban ...
    Series series Institute for Research and Teaching Series
    In the first edition of this seminal study, Larry Cuban presented the last century of American teaching as one of a stable teacher-centered pedagogy. Within this framework, Cuban explored how major school reform efforts to alter classroom teaching often resulted in modest shifts in pedagogy in elementary schools and even less change in secondary schools.Now, in this second edition, How Teachers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots

    Improving America's Urban Schools

    Edited by Larry Cuban, Michael Usdan ...
    Drastic reform measures are being implemented in growing numbers of urban communities as the public’s patience has finally run out with perpetually nonperforming public schools. This authoritative and eye-opening volume examines governance changes in six cities during the 1990s, where either mayoral control of schools has occurred or where noneducators have been appointed to lead school districts. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    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

  • Community Practice

    Theories and Skills for Social Workers

    by David A. Hardcastle ...
    For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases spotlight the linkages between theoretical orientations and practical skills, with an enhanced ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    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