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“robert l crowson”

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  • The Politics Of Education And The New Institutionalism

    Reinventing The American School

    by William Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, Hanne M. Mawhinney ...
    This is an assessment of the reluctance of American education institutions to undergo change and reform at a time when it is considered necessary. The lack of public confidence in educational institutions is discussed along with the subsequent consequences. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Shaping Education Policy

    Power and Process

    Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell, Dorothy Shipps, Robert L. Crowson ...
    Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy, which provides conceptual guideposts for future policy development and strategies for change. Leading scholars explore the interacting social processes and the dynamics of power politics as they intersect with democratic ideals and shape school performance. Chapters cover major themes that have influenced ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education

    by Gary L. Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy

    Edited by Robert F. Durant ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    $33.19 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

  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    by W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Reproducing Racism

    How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

    by Daria Roithmayr ...
    Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantageThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $33.89 USD