Histories of American Education – serie
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Instrumental University
Education in Service of the National Agenda After World War II
Av Ethan Schrum
Inbunden, 2019
668 kr
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In The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental …
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
The Sad History of American Business Schools
Av Steven Conn
Inbunden, 2019
380 kr
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Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In …
Creating the Suburban School Advantage
Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis
Av John L. Rury
Inbunden, 2020
1700 kr
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Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan …
Undermining Racial Justice
How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality
Inbunden, 2020
1700 kr
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Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, …
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
The Sad History of American Business Schools
Av Steven Conn
Häftad, 2021
296 kr
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Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In …
Creating the Suburban School Advantage
Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis
Av John L. Rury
Häftad, 2022
372 kr
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Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan …
Education Myth
How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy
Av Jon Shelton
Inbunden, 2023
533 kr
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The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, …
Undermining Racial Justice
How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality
Häftad, 2022
401 kr
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Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, …
A Is for Arson
A History of Vandalism in American Education
Inbunden, 2023
474 kr
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In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as students, parents, …
Dividing the Public
School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity
Inbunden, 2024
1605 kr
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Winner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize from The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and awarded with Honorable Mention in the Outstanding Book Award by the History of Education Society; and Honorable Mention in the New Scholar's Book Award from AERA's Division F. …
Dividing the Public
School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity
Häftad, 2024
282 kr
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Winner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize from The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and awarded with Honorable Mention in the Outstanding Book Award by the History of Education Society; and Honorable Mention in the New Scholar's Book Award from AERA's Division F. …
Disciplining Democracy
How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism
Inbunden, 2025
474 kr
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Disciplining Democracy reveals the political consequences for the triumph of "service learning" as the dominant pedagogical model of civic engagement in the modern American university. Volunteer-based civic engagement programs in higher education are popularly understood as curricular opportunities …
Playing the Game
How State Colleges Used Athletics to Expand Educational Opportunity
Inbunden, 2026
577 kr
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Playing the Game uncovers the history of state and regional colleges as engines of opportunity in postwar America. By 1970, these institutions enrolled more students than elite private or flagship public universities did, and yet they remained on the margins of public attention and scholarly …
