"By a brilliant young constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago ... who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for Judge Merrick B. Garland and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and…
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"This book brings together analytic approaches from childhood studies, sociology, cultural studies and development studies to illustrate the different ways in which the concept of the.
"When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward social, economic, cultural, and racial justice. This book describes how teacher e…
"In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function. Yet this is neither self-evident nor self-explanatory. The degree of involvemen…
"Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest ... traditional higher education strongholds ... expect to los…
Educational equality
by Howe, Kenneth R., Haydon, Graham, Brighouse, Harry, Tooley, James
fromKey debates in educational policy
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Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Schools, State, and Political Power -- Chapter 2: A View From Two Cities: Newark, New Jersey and Central Falls, Rhode Island -- Chapter 3: State Takeovers and Black …
"It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, together with their claims to autonomy and access to specialised knowledge, is being …
"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, a…