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  • The Idea of the University

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Series Book 18 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives, Volume 2 is a companion to The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1, which presents readings from the major texts on the idea of the university over the last two hundred years. This volume consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world. The essays examine ideas of the university that lie ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The New Political Economy of Urban Education

    Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Microaggression Theory

    Influence and Implications

    Get to know the sociopolitical context behind microaggressionsMicroaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (e.g., race, gender, culture, religion, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). These daily, common manifestations of aggression leave many people feeling vulnerable, targeted, angry, and afraid. How ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • The Prize

    Who's In Charge of America's Schools?

    This*New York Times* bestseller chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker tried—and failed—to reform education in Newark, NJ.In September of 2010, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on Oprah to announce a pledge of $100 million to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey. There by his side were the city’s Democratic mayor, Cory Booker, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weaving an Otherwise

    In-Relations Methodological Practice

    Edited by Amanda Tachine, Z Nicolazzo ...
    Who (and what) are you bearing witness to (and for) through your research? When you witness, what claims are you making about who and what matters? What does your research forget, and does it do it on purpose?This book reconceptualizes qualitative research as an in-relations process, one that is centered on, fully concerned with, and lifts up those who have been and continue to be dispossessed, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Disillusioned

    Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

    **"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

    $56.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight backIn the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race to the Bottom

    Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education

    by Luke Rosiak ...
    Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs. Improved STEM literacy. Greater achievement for inner-city children. Happiness for all children. So why are liberals spending billions of dollars working against those goals?In Race to the Bottom, Luke Rosiak uncovers the shocking reason why American education is failing: Powerful special interest groups are using our kids as ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • This Is Not A Test

    A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education

    The conversation about turning around failing schools is in the national spotlight, and that spotlight is often focused on schools that black and brown children attend. Certain proposals to improve urban schools generate lots of headlines: expanding charter schools, funding school vouchers, using student test scores to evaluate, promote and pay teachers. But race is seldom considered as a tool for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Witnessing Whiteness

    The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action

    Witnessing Whiteness offers a comprehensive and empathetic exploration of what white people experience when learning about race, why it is so confusing, how whiteness works in their lives, and how to act against racism. The author combines authentic storytelling, nuanced analysis, and compelling voices from a collection of cross-race guides to lead readers through a self-reflective process that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bourdieu and Higher Education

    Life in the Modern University

    This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to examine how the university sector has changed over recent decades and how it has been reshaped into its current form.The book draws together various ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Helping Foster Children In School

    A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

    by John DeGarmo ...
    Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition

    Cognitive Development in a Digital AgeJames Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games–yes, even violent video games–and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games.This revised edition expands beyond mere gaming, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies

    by Jared Myracle ...
    A parent's guide to understanding the Common Core educational standardsDesigned to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions, the Common Core standards have been adopted in 45 states from coast to coast. These new common standards are designed to bring many diverse state standards into alignment with each other in math and English to ... Read more

    $6.00 USD

  • Character Compass

    How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success

    by Scott Seider ...
    **2013 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book AwardIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways.**One school focuses on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Sustainable. Resilient. Free.

    The Future of Public Higher Education

    by John Warner ...
    In 1983, U.S. News and World Report started to rank colleges and universities, throwing them into competition with each other for students and precious resources. Over the course of the next thirty or so years, everything fell apart. A Reagan-era ethos of privatization and competition has turned students into consumers and colleges into businesses. Tuition is unaffordable. Student loan debt is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Music History Classroom

    Edited by James A. Davis ...
    The Music History Classroom brings together essays written by recognized and experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This includes the traditional music history survey for music majors, but the materials presented here are applicable to other music history courses for music majors and general education students alike, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Why Rural Schools Matter

    From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational but also social and economic needs. For many communities, these schools are the ties that bind. Why Rural Schools Matter shares the untold ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Political Contexts of Educational Leadership

    ISLLC Standard Six

    Edited by Jane Lindle ...
    Series series PSEL/NELP Leadership Preparation
    Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard #6—the political context of education. This unique volume helps aspiring school leaders understand the dynamics of educational policy in multiple arenas at the local, state, and federal levels. Leaders are responsible for promoting the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Much More Than Academic Abilities

    by David Chan ...
    Academic abilities play a critical role not only in school settings but also in practical work situations and other problem-solving contexts that involve important intellectual task demands. However, we will not achieve the intended positive outcomes if we give too much emphasis to academic abilities and neglect non-academic attributes such as personality, interests, motivations, values, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Refugee High

    Coming of Age in America

    by Elly Fishman ...
    A year in the life of a Chicago high school with one of the nation’s highest proportions of refugees, told with “strong novel-like pacing” (Milwaukee Magazine)"A stunning and heart-wrenching work of nonfiction."—Chicago ReaderWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel AwardFor a century, Chicago’s Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a home to immigrant and refugee students. In 2017, during the worst ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus