Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education, Hardcover - Adam Laats

The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides acc...

After suffering emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma while witnessing George Floyd's tragic demise, Dr. Debra Hobbs was forced into confr...

Provides an original consideration of the militarization of schools in the United States and explores the prolonged battle to prevent the military ...

How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and worl...

Contributor(s): Author: Thomas C. LeonardIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda ...

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DescriptionOver the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students--mostly self-funded--has swept across American higher educa...

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Contributor(s): Author: Mica PollockThis book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: ...

Explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research o...

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Is the American public school doing what we want it to do? Or, is what we want it to do in conflict with what society allows it to do? This book ta...

Award-winning author, Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as "The Fath...

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Reducere. A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley J...

A new and easy-to-use collection of primary school assemblies from the UK's favourite assembly writer including 45 assemblies: 30 brand new and 15 ...

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented...

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Reducere. Six Shifts to Improve Special Education and Other Interventions offers a set of bold, new ideas for dramatically raising the achievement of student...

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500 years on from the Reformation, Nick Page distils what we really need to know about Luther, Calvin and all those other serious religious types i...

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Reducere. In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers, " challenging ...

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long ca...

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Conservative political commentator Kathy Barnette shares how liberal leadership has failed the black community and how being a democrat is not syno...

An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

Reducere. Charles J. Sykes offers fifty life lessons not included in the self-esteem-laden, reality-light curriculum of most schools. Here are truths about w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Alana Jelinek returns to the question 'what is art?', retelling the history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and val...

The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American his...

This new interpretation of the causes, course and consequences of America's greatest crisis explores the complex relationships between the local an...

A complete overview of watercolour painting in the Waldorf curriculum.

DescriptionMusic Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of...

Reducere. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

Reducere. DescriptionFranny loves her school. She's played, read, studied, and even napped here. Franny has lots of good memories there. But today it's time ...