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  • School Choice In The Real World

    Lessons From Arizona Charter Schools

    by Robert Maranto ...
    This book presents the first published accounts and evaluations of the first free market in education in the U.S., Arizona charter schools.. The charter school is fast becoming one of the most significant attempts at public education reform in this country. Over 1100 charter schools operate in twenty-seven states, with several hundred more to be added in the next two years. School Choice in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century

    A Multidimensional Inquiry

    by Michael T. Rogers, Michael A. Armato, Jessica L. Aubin, Elizabeth Bennion, Gary E. Bugh, Carolyn Campbell, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury, Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, Heather K. Evans, Steven E. Galatas0, Shamira Gelbman1, Jeffrey D. Hilmer2, Cindy Pressley3, Chapman Rackaway4, J. Cherie Strachan5, Brendan Toner6, Barbara Warner7, Mike Yawn8, Sally Friedman9, Donald M. Gooch0, Robert Maranto2 ...
    Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible today. Inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of American democracy in the early 1800s, ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Education Reform in the Obama Era

    The Second Term and the 2016 Election

    by Robert Maranto, Evan Rhinesmith, MICHAEL Q. MCSHANE ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those of recent presidencies, reflecting elite views that since substantial increases in spending have failed ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • COVID-19 and the Classroom

    How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption

    by Martha Bradley-Dorsey, Jodie Brinkman, Katrina Brown-Aliffi, Dick Carpenter, Carol Cash, Maegan Dayton, Joshua Dunn, Charles Glenn, Michelle Hicks, Samantha Hope, Savanna Love, Sarah Marrs, Kim McKnight, Natalie Neugebauer, Emiola Oyefuga, Gabrielle Pickover, Maria Pitre-Martin, Christine Powell, Ted Price, Rodrigo Queiroz e Melo, David Shannon, Parinita Shetty, Deja Trammell, Angela Watson, Sarah Woods, Diana Yesbeck, LaRon Scott, Robert Maranto, Neal P. McCluskey ...
    COVID-19 and the Classroom: How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption presents social science research that explores how schools navigated the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through the 2020-21 school year. This book also serves as a history book, documenting what this period was like for those involved in the enterprise of educating children. The book is divided into ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • School Choice in Europe

    Edited by Robert Maranto, Rodrigo Queiroz e Melo, Tommaso Agasisti ...
    In this book, leading experts present rigorous, readable studies of education policies and school markets in 11 European countries from Ireland to Ukraine, offering lessons for researchers, policymakers and educators. No other book fills this niche.Americans debating whether parents’ choosing their children’s schools will improve education would be wise to learn from a century of experience in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • COVID-19 and Schools

    Policy, Stakeholders, and School Choice

    Edited by Robert Maranto, David T. Marshall ...
    This book features contributions from leading experts who present peer reviewed research on how the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic affected U.S. teachers, students, parents, teaching practices, enrolments, and institutional innovations, offering the first empirical findings exploring educational impacts likely to last for decades.The COVID-19 pandemic presented the greatest crisis in the history ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Educating Believers

    Religion and School Choice

    Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice offers theoretical essays and empirical studies from leading researchers on religion and schooling.Religious authority and emphasis on fairness and caring provide consistent rules governing the stable family and community relationships needed for individual growth and collective action. Religion is among the most important aspects of human life, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Two Ravens

    The Life and Teachings of a Spiritual Warrior

    by Louis Two Ravens Irwin, Robert Liebert ...
    This is the story of a remarkable Native American who through his own life struggles learned to unite the paths of warrior and healer. Two Ravens was taught the traditional healing ways of his Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arickara people by his grandfather, knowledge which served him well in his dealings with the hostile white society he later encountered. After years of rampant discrimination and racism, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Obama Presidency

    Change and Continuity

    Edited by Andrew Dowdle, Dirk C. van Raemdonck, Robert Maranto ...
    At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. However, President Obama's first two years in office has led to some notable surprises. What accounts for the political stability and change demonstrated by the Obama administration? Which factors shaping a presidency are structural, which are personal, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Homeschooling in the 21st Century

    Research and Prospects

    Edited by Robert Maranto, Debra A. Bell ...
    Education began on the most intimate levels: the family and the community. With industrialization, education became professionalized and bureaucratized, typically conducted in schools rather than homes. Over the past half century, however, schooling has increasingly returned home, both in the United States and across the globe. This reflects several trends, including greater affluence and smaller ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Judging Bush

    Edited by Robert Maranto, Tom Lansford, Jeremy Johnson ...
    Series series Studies in the Modern Presidency
    There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W. Bush will leave as 43rd President of the United States. Recognizing that Bush the Younger has been variously described as dimwitted, opportunistic, innovative, and bold, it would be presumptuous to draw any hard and fast conclusions about how history will view him. Nevertheless, it is well within academia's ability to begin to make ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    by Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

    $17.99 USD