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Dropouts From Schools
Issues, Dilemmas, and Solutions
Av Lois Weis, Eleanor Farrar m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
450 kr
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The authors examine the major groups within the dropout population, the myriad of factors within schools that lead to dropping out, and the larger social and economic context within which dropping out occurs. The resulting synthesis of knowledge and perspectives provided here will enhance our …
College in Black and White
African American Students in Predominantly White and in Historically Black Public Universities
Av Walter R. Allen, Edgar G. Epps m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
474 kr
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This book reports findings from the National Study of Black College Students, a comprehensive study of Black college students' characteristics, experiences, and achievements as related to student background, institutional context, and interpersonal relationships. Over 4,000 undergraduates and …
Black Resistance in High School
Forging a Separatist Culture
Häftad, 1992
442 kr
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This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Through ethnographic research, the author presents significant and provocative insight into the formation of …
Emergent Issues in Education
Comparative Perspectives
Av Robert F. Arnove, Philip G. Altbach m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
474 kr
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In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education illuminate worldwide trends in critical issues that confront policymakers and practitioners in different national settings.Among the topics raised and …
Cold War and Academic Governance
The Lattimore Case at Johns Hopkins
Häftad, 1993
380 kr
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This book examines the harassment of the Johns Hopkins University sinologist Owen Lattimore during the height of the Cold War on campus. It moves from detailing the specifics of Lattimore's case to a discussion of the broader themes of academic governance that the case exposed. With his meticulous …
Troubled Times for American Higher Education
The 1990s and Beyond
Av Clark Kerr
Inbunden, 1993
1473 kr
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Clark Kerr, one of the nation's foremost educators and commentators on the educational scene, examines emerging problems that he predicts will influence the near future of higher education. These include the quality of undergraduate education; ethics, both as a subject and as practiced by the …
Troubled Times for American Higher Education
The 1990s and Beyond
Av Clark Kerr
Häftad, 1993
442 kr
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Clark Kerr, one of the nation's foremost educators and commentators on the educational scene, examines emerging problems that he predicts will influence the near future of higher education. These include the quality of undergraduate education; ethics, both as a subject and as practiced by the …
Multiculturalism and Education
Diversity and its Impact on Schools and Society
Av Thomas J. La Belle, Christopher R. Ward
Häftad, 1994
463 kr
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This book introduces multiculturalism and its relationship to education and schooling, while also highlighting current approaches to multicultural education and placing them in a broad comparative and international context.Through a comparative view that is both domestic and international, the book …
Contradictory College
The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College
Häftad, 1994
474 kr
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This book systematically analyzes the evidence on four key issues that have divided commentators on the community college: The community college's impact on students, business, and the universities; the factors behind its rise since 1900; the causes of its swift vocationalization after 1960; and …
Promotion and Tenure
Community and Socialization in Academe
Av William G. Tierney, Estela Mara Bensimon
Häftad, 1996
442 kr
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Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.Research on the organizational culture in higher education …
Challenge of Eastern Asian Education
Implications for America
Av William K. Cummings, Philip G. Altbach
Häftad, 1997
474 kr
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Provides specific examples of Asian educational practice that may have relevance to the United States.The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education highlights how Asian education policy and practice challenge American schools. The book focuses on innovations that the nations of the Pacific Rim have …
Managed Professionals
Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor
Av Gary Rhoades
Häftad, 1998
459 kr
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Focuses on the ongoing negotiations of professional autonomy and managerial discretion and provides insight into the broad restructuring of faculty, with conclusions that extend beyond unionized faculty to all of academe.Managed Professionals is a source book on the negotiated terms of faculty work …
Education/Technology/Power
Educational Computing as a Social Practice
Av Michael W. Apple, Hank Bromley
Häftad, 1998
450 kr
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With a focus on educational computing, this book examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance. Examines the important question: Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing technology a good idea?Is the enormous financial …
Capitalizing Knowledge
New Intersections of Industry and Academia
Av Henry Etzkowitz, Andrew Webster m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
361 kr
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Examines current trends toward increasing links between industry and academia and the resulting commercialization of universities as they seek to capitalize their research.Capitalizing Knowledge explores the academic–industrial interface in a sustained and critical analysis, drawing on expertise in …
Academic Kitchen
A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley
Av Maresi Nerad
Häftad, 1999
354 kr
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Presents a social history of gender stratification at the University of California at Berkeley through a combination of organizational theory and biography.The Academic Kitchen tells the story of the evolution of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics, at the University of …
Transnational Competence
Rethinking the U.S.-Japan Educational Relationship
Av John N. Hawkins, William K. Cummings
Häftad, 2000
547 kr
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Offers the definitive study of United States-Japan educational exchange relationship.Born out of a bilateral project between distinguished scholars in Japan and the United States, Transnational Competence provides a definitive and comprehensive study of the status of relations between these two …
Burning Down the House
Politics, Governance, and Affirmative Action at the University of California
Av Brian Pusser
Häftad, 2006
450 kr
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A riveting analysis of the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California.Burning Down the House presents a riveting analysis of one of the most nationally prominent and bitterly contested policy battles in the history of American higher education: the struggle to …
Mixed Race Students in College
The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus
Inbunden, 2004
1250 kr
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Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students."It's kind of an odd thing, really, because it's not like I'm one or the other, or like I fit here or there, but I kind of also fit everywhere. And nowhere. All at once. You know?" - Florence"My racial identity, I would …
Mixed Race Students in College
The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus
Häftad, 2004
629 kr
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Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students."It's kind of an odd thing, really, because it's not like I'm one or the other, or like I fit here or there, but I kind of also fit everywhere. And nowhere. All at once. You know?" - Florence"My racial identity, I would …
Racial Crisis in American Higher Education
Av Kofi Lomotey, William A. Smith
Häftad, 2024
474 kr
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Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.A crisis of immense magnitude persists in higher education in the United States. For this third edition of The Racial Crisis in American Higher …
High Status Track
Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification
Av Paul W. Kingston, Lionel S. Lewis
Häftad, 1990
390 kr
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The essays in this groundbreaking volume significantly advance our understanding of the process by which an elite school education provides graduates with distinctly favorable life chances. The authors examine the contemporary issue and controversy in the field of education (and society) which …
Economics of American Universities
Management, Operations, and Fiscal Environment
Av Stephen A. Hoenack, Eileen L. Collins
Inbunden, 1990
1080 kr
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This book discusses the adjustment of universities to the changing financial environment. Its authors analyze the relationship between higher education inputs and outputs, assess the available information about the determinants of university costs, survey the influence of market conditions and …
Higher Learning and High Technology
Dynamics of Higher Education Policy Formation
Häftad, 1990
390 kr
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In this critical new work, Slaughter investigates how university involvement in high technology influences higher education policy. By conducting a case study of the Business-Higher Education Forum, a liaison organization consisting of Fortune 500 Chief Executive Officers and presidents of …
Dropouts From Schools
Issues, Dilemmas, and Solutions
Av Lois Weis, Eleanor Farrar m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1080 kr
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The authors examine the major groups within the dropout population, the myriad of factors within schools that lead to dropping out, and the larger social and economic context within which dropping out occurs. The resulting synthesis of knowledge and perspectives provided here will enhance our …
Religious Fundamentalism and American Education
The Battle for the Public Schools
Häftad, 1990
363 kr
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For the past twenty-five years, 'ultra-fundamentalist' Christians have put increasing pressure on American public education to conform exclusively with their own philosophy and vision of education and culture. Eugene Provenzo considers and addresses the impact that the fundamentalist movement has …
Curriculum Differentiation
Interpretive Studies in U. S. Secondary Schools
Av Reba Page, Linda Valli
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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Sharing methods and orientations of the interpretive paradigm, the contributors to this book sharpen our understanding of the school's differentiating function. They analyze issues and clarify persistent contradictions in traditional studies of curriculum differentiation and tracking by examining …
Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980
Av Clark Kerr
Häftad, 1991
411 kr
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Clark Kerr, former President of the University of California and a leader in higher education policymaking, offers his views of the turbulent decades when colleges and universities scrambled to provide faculty and facilities for the burgeoning student population, only to be faced later with …
Textbooks in American Society
Politics, Policy, and Pedagogy
Av Philip G. Altbach, Gail P. Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
390 kr
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In recent years, textbooks have been widely criticized for low standards, lack of imaginativeness, and insensitivity to racial and gender issues. Increasingly, they are cited as another "weak link" in American public education. This book goes beyond the headlines to examine how textbooks are …
Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education
Av Lois Weis, Philip G. Altbach m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
390 kr
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This book explores key policy issues related to early childhood education. Through the contributions of various professionals in the field, the editors provide a vision, practical and possible, of early childhood education in the 1990s. Part I delves into the complex world, both personal and …
Creating Community on College Campuses
Av Irving J. Spitzberg Jr., Virginia V. Thorndike
Inbunden, 1992
1080 kr
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Creating Community on College Campuses addresses the most critical and difficult issues facing higher education in the 1990s: improving the quality of teaching and learning, raising academic standards, protecting freedom of expression, and simultaneously enhancing community of the whole and …
