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  • Sold Out

    How Marketing in School Threatens Children's Well-Being and Undermines their Education

    by Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger ...
    If you strip away the rosy language of “school-business partnership,” “win-win situation,” “giving back to the community,” and the like, what you see when you look at corporate marketing activities in the schools is example after example of the exploitation of children for financial gain.Over the long run the financial benefit marketing in schools delivers to corporations rests on the ability of ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • School Reform Proposals

    The Research Evidence

    Edited by Alex Molnar ...
    Series series Research in Educational Productivity
    An examination of the research relating to school reform proposals. It features essays covering: early childhood education; class-size reduction in grades K-3; small schools; grouping students for instruction; public schools and their communities; teacher characteristics; and more. ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Changing Problem Behavior in Schools

    by Alex Molnar ...
    (orginally published by Jossey-Bass 1990)Changing Problem Behavior in Schools presents an innovative approach to dealing with classroom behavior problems that can be used successfully by teachers as all grade levels, counselors, and administrators. The authors draw on techniques and strategies developed by family therapists to show how behavior can be changed and chronic problems eff ectively ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Think Tank Research Quality

    Lessons for Policy Makers, the Media, and the Public

    Edited by Kevin G. Welner, Patricia H. Hinchey, Alex Molnar, Don Weitzman ...
    Education policy over the past thirty years has been powerfully influenced by well-funded and slickly produced research reports produced by advocacy think tanks. The quality of think tank reports and the value of the policies they support have been sharply debated. To help policymakers, the media, and the public assess these quality issues, the Think Tank Review Project provides expert third party ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • School Commercialism

    From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity

    by Alex Molnar ...
    Series series Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture
    Pizza Hut's Book It! program rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. Toys R Us paid a Kansas school five dollars for each student who took its toy survey. Cisco Systems donated internet access to a California elementary school, asking in return for the school choir to sing the company's praises while wearing Cisco t-shirts.Kids today face a barrage of corporate messages in the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Giving Kids The Business

    The Commercialization Of America's Schools

    by Alex Molnar ...
    Giving Kids the Business exposes the ways in which corporate America is turning schools into profit centers, the curriculum into an advertising vehicle, and children into a cash crop. Learn how market-oriented school reforms take money out of your pocket and lower the quality of public education. This book sounds the alarm over schools being used by marketers to pitch their products to our nations ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Applied Social Psychology

    Understanding and Managing Social Problems

    Edited by Linda Steg, Kees Keizer, Abraham P. Buunk, Talib Rothengatter ...
    Applied Social Psychology combines the science of social psychology with the practical application of solving social problems that exist in the real world. This exciting textbook provides a thorough explanation of how social psychologists can contribute to the understanding and management of different social problems. A highly prestigious team of contributors from across Europe and the United ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • That Used to Be Us

    How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

    by Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum ...
    America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations

    Edited by Michele J. Gelfand, Carsten K.W. De Dreu ...
    Series series SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series
    This volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series is a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary conflict research which aims to place conflict research and theory squarely within the realm of industrial and organizational psychology. This volume brings together and integrates classic and contemporary insight in conflict origins, conflict ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The New Geography of Jobs

    by Enrico Moretti ...
    "A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them—and how policymakers can learn from that." —Barack ObamaWe're used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red versus blue, haves versus have-nots. But today there are three Americas. At one extreme are the brain hubs—cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Durham—with workers ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the YearIn this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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