How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong, Paperback - Douglas B. Downey

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal--that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as ...

Wall Street Journal BestsellerMuch of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest...and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wro...

Reducere. Wall Street Journal BestsellerMuch of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest...and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wro...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Eric BarkerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 240 x 31Cover type: Hardba...

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Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, ...

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Education is one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy--yet scholars, educators, policymakers, and parents do not agree about what the money s...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Jamal GreeneNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 187 x 260 x 23Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

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Through discussion of key messages from educational research, and drawing on a track record of success, Bruce Robertson explores how the barriers t...

Examines in detail the turbulent years of education policy and practice from the late 1970s to the present day and sets out what policy-makers and ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amanda E. LewisAuthor: John B. DiamondOn the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an en...

What counterintuitive lessons can we learn from the meteoric rise of Mindset Theory in education? Why have computers so overwhelmingly failed to be...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amanda E. LewisAuthor: John B. DiamondOn the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an en...

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Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Tim SpectorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 26Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. He considers the nature and importance of ...

In an educational milieu in which standards and accountability hold sway, schools can become places of stress, marginalization, and isolation inste...

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A controversial and outspoken book debunking the popular theory that Islam and the West are irreconcilable enemies, showing how in truth they share...

Disrupting the cycle starts with you. It's human nature to carry implicit bias, which can lead to negative assumptions and labels of students. This...

A controversial and outspoken book debunking the popular theory that Islam and the West are irreconcilable enemies, showing how in truth they share...

In Divergent Paths to College, Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead students to very different college...

The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, but this hiatus provided an opportunity to rethink the fundamental principles of our education system. In thi...

Contributor(s): Author: T. M. ScanlonInequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Deman...