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  • Educational Dimensions of School Lunch

    Critical Perspectives

    Edición de Suzanne Rice, A.G. Rud ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the central purpose of this collection is to examine school lunch as an educational phenomenon in its own ... Leer más

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  • The Two-Body Problem

    Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education

    Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that "the two-body problem" has become a common way of referring to the situation. Increasingly, intense competition to hire the best faculty forces institutions to assist dual-career ... Leer más

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    Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

    de John McKnight ...
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  • Campus Confidential

    100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)

    In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this second edition, Ken S. Coates and Bill Morrison pick up where they left off, adding new and up-to ... Leer más

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  • Made in Canada Leadership

    Wisdom from the Nation's Best and Brightest on the Art and Practice of Leadership

    Series series Jossey-Bass Leadership Series - Canada
    Praise for Made in Canada Leadership"As an energy delivery company that takes great pride in our commitment to sustainable development, Enbridge recognizes that the leading, sustainable corporations of tomorrow must create an internal culture where leadership is fostered and nurtured at all levels. Made in Canada Leadership provides the roadmap for corporations seeking to secure their long-term ... Leer más

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  • How Organizations Develop Activists

    Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

    de Hahrie Han ...
    Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field ... Leer más

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  • Dream Factories

    Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis

    Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing ... Leer más

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  • The Fourth Way

    The Inspiring Future for Educational Change

    This book analyzes three previous major change efforts, outlines their strengths and limitations, and offers a successful and sustainable fourth way to integrate teacher professionalism, community engagement, government policy, and accountability. ... Leer más

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  • The New Public Service

    Serving, Not Steering

    The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, ... Leer más

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  • Behind the Academic Curtain

    How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD

    Series series Chicago Guides to Academic Life
    More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable maze. In Behind the Academic Curtain, Frank F. ... Leer más

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  • Diversity & Inclusion: The Big Six Formula for Success

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    The case that I make for diversity and inclusion is not just sociological or democratic: it is a business strategy. That is the focus of this book. I developed this framework for corporations and associations. It will show you how to increase your revenues directly, through understanding the pathways that I provide, and by implementing the Big Six Action Plan that I outline, so that you can take a ... Leer más

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  • Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

    How Design Activism Confronts Growth

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    The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as ... Leer más

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