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  • Student Teaching

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Leah Wasburn-Moses, Philo C. Wasburn ...
    Student teaching is considered to be the single most powerful learning experience in teacher preparation. Although much has been made of its importance, surprisingly little research has been conducted specifically on student teaching, which some claim has remained unchanged for a century. Because student teaching is nearly universal in a field with wide-ranging practices even within a single ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Making Citizens

    Political Socialization Research and Beyond

    by Philo C. Wasburn, Tawnya J. Adkins Covert ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book assembles what political scientists, sociologists, and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values, attitudes, identities, and behavioral dispositions. Of particular interest to Philo C. Wasburn and Tawnya J. Adkins Covert ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Media Bias?

    A Comparative Study of Time, Newsweek, the National Review, and the Progressive, 1975-2000

    by Tawnya J. Adkins Covert, Philo C. Wasburn ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Media Bias? addresses the question: To what extent can mainstream news media be characterized as "conservative" or "liberal"? The study involves a systematic comparative analysis of the coverage given to major domestic social issues from 1975 to 2000 by two mainstream newsmagazines, Newsweek and Time, and two explicitly partisan publications, the conservative National Review and the liberal ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy

    The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...
    Series Book 85 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities.For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • No Excuses

    Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

    by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom ...
    Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Informing the News

    by Thomas E. Patterson ...
    As the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century ago, democracy falters “if there is no steady supply of trustworthy and relevant news.” Today’s journalists are not providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weight to facts and biased opinion, stir up small controversies, and substitute infotainment for real news. Even when they get the facts rights, they often misjudge the context in ... Read more

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  • Stuck in Place

    Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

    by Patrick Sharkey ...
    In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several decades. In Stuck in Place, Sharkey describes how ... Read more

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  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    by Jacob M. Grumbach ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Radical Possibilities

    Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

    by Jean Anyon ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Sociology

    by John E. Farley, Michael W. Flota ...
    This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The text continues to frame sociological debates around the major theoretical perspectives of sociology and focus on capturing ... Read more

    $120.00 USD