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  • Higher Admissions

    The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

    by Marvin Krislov, Prudence Carter, Nicholas Lemann, Patricia Gándara ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How to make American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world’s first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a “meritocracy” in which ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Next Twenty-five Years

    Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa

    by David Lee Featherman, Marvin Krislov, Martin Hall ...
    "Ambitious, provocative, and wide-ranging, this rich collection of essays from U.S. and South African perspectives reflects the thinking of thoughtful advocates of affirmative action."---William G. Bowen, President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and President Emeritus, Princeton University"Thoughtful commentary from outstanding experts on affirmative action’s future in two countries ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Collected Letters of Henry Northrup Castle

    by Henry Northrup Castle ...
    George Herbert Mead, one of America’s most important and influential philosophers, a founder of pragmatism, social psychology, and symbolic interactionism, was also a keen observer of American culture and early modernism. In the period from the 1870s to 1895, Henry Northrup Castle maintained a correspondence with family members and with Mead—his best friend at Oberlin College and brother-in-law ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated

    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

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  • The Story of My Life

    by Helen Keller ...
    The inspiring account of Helen Keller’s triumph over deafness and blindness, and a testament to the power of an indomitable willAn American classic rediscovered by each generation and popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Helen Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world.Published when Keller was only twenty-two, The Story of My Life portrays the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The New Lawyer

    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

    by Julie MacFarlane ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
    Today’s justice system and the legal profession have rendered the “lawyer-warrior” notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer’s skills go beyond court battles to encompass negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, and restorative justice. In The New Lawyer, Julie Macfarlane explores the evolving role of practitioners, articulating ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • What Universities Owe Democracy

    by Ronald J. Daniels ...
    Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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  • Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap

    Liberating Mindsets to Effective Change

    by Anthony Muhammad ...
    Series series Classroom Strategies
    Ensure learning equality in every classroom. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from negative academic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Mark Twain's Essays Letters and Speeches

    by Mark Twain ...
    This book-collection file includes books of Mark Twain's speeches and letters, plus 3 book-length collections of essays: What is Man? Sketches New and Old, and Christian Science. It also includes the following short collections and individual essays: Editorial Wild Oats, Essays on Paul Bourget, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, and In Defence of Harriet Shelley. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel ... Read more

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  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Mark Twain

    by Archibald Henderson ...
    Biography of the American humorist by an English author, first published in 1910. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ... Read more

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  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD