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  • Midnight Comes Before Love

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    "Midnight Comes Before Love" is a remarkable collection of poetry comprised by Victoria CainThe book was inspired by the author's own life with the hopes of sharing the journey we all have to experience: joy, pain, sorrow and heartbreak.Overcoming hurdles and embracing your inner self is a challenge every individual will encounter. The author's intent is to stimulate mindfulness through poetry and ... Leer más

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  • Schools and Screens

    A Watchful History

    de Victoria Cain ...
    Why screens in schools—from film screenings to instructional television to personal computers—did not bring about the educational revolution promised by reformers.Long before Chromebook giveaways and remote learning, screen media technologies were enthusiastically promoted by American education reformers. Again and again, as schools deployed film screenings, television programs, and computer games ... Leer más

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    How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    “One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize itWe’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and practice of learning that emphasizes ... Leer más

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  • Informing the News

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Outrage Industry

    Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility

    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a powerful backlash grew, led by organizations such as the National Organization for Women. But perhaps what ... Leer más

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  • Lawyers as Leaders

    No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents have been lawyers. And yet almost no occupation rouses greater public distrust. This paradox raises ... Leer más

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    Gatekeeping is one of the media’s central roles in public life: people rely on mediators to transform information about billions of events into a manageable number of media messages. This process determines not only which information is selected, but also what the content and nature of messages, such as news, will be. Gatekeeping Theory describes the powerful process through which events are ... Leer más

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  • Inventing Equal Opportunity

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    Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ... Leer más

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