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  • Higher Admissions

    The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

    by Marvin Krislov, Prudence Carter, Nicholas Lemann, Patricia Gándara ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How to make American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world’s first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a “meritocracy” in which ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • 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

  • The New Lawyer

    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

    by Julie MacFarlane ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
    Today’s justice system and the legal profession have rendered the “lawyer-warrior” notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer’s skills go beyond court battles to encompass negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, and restorative justice. In The New Lawyer, Julie Macfarlane explores the evolving role of practitioners, articulating ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • What Universities Owe Democracy

    by Ronald J. Daniels ...
    Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    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

  • Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap

    Liberating Mindsets to Effective Change

    by Anthony Muhammad ...
    Series series Classroom Strategies
    Ensure learning equality in every classroom. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from negative academic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mismatch

    How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

    by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr ...
    The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • No Citizen Left Behind

    by Meira Levinson ...
    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

  • American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

    Edited by Michael N. Bastedo, Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport ...
    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

    $32.99 USD

  • The Political Classroom

    Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education

    by Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in EducationHelping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy argue that teachers will make better professional judgments about these issues if ... Read more

    $54.99 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