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Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?
This exceptional volume looks at the issues facing higher education from the perspective of both economics and history. Each chapter explores how the lessons learned from market competition in other sectors...
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In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions to one of the province's most united and powerful voices for educators.
Today's teacher is under constant pressure to raise students' test scores, while the rise of neoliberalism in Canada has systematically stripped our education system of funding and support. But,...
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“The Change Rose” is an emotional challenge for Christians from award-winning columnist Kim Rice Smith. If you read her popular daily blog, The Heart of Warrior, you know faith and commitment to public education drive her heart.
This powerful work of the heart will take you on a difficult but necessary walk through twenty years of service as a public school's board member. There are lessons learned, soul-searching questions that remain, and a...
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In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation's campuses as awash in a violent crime waveand to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students are indifferent to female sexual assault victims in their midst. Neither of these claims has any bearing in reality. But they have achieved widespread acceptance, thanks in part...
6) Children, Not Widgets: How to Fight and Fix the Willful Miseducation of Students and the Dismantlin
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Through the analysis of congressional debates and hearings, presidential speeches, public opinion polls, and eighty-three interviews with administrators and teachers, Children, Not Widgets shows how policymakers willfully unraveled many public services, like education. The framing of government as the problem, rather than the solution, and citizens as consumers, rather than community members, justified allotting public resources to an unregulated...
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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017
From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.
Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress.
A committed feminist, Kipnis was surprised to find...
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La Pedagogía Social es una disciplina que investiga y orienta la práctica socioeducativa teniendo como propósito la mejora sociocomunitaria, desde una dimensión cultural, horizontal y ética. La región iberoamericana presenta relaciones, dificultades, conflictos y posibilidades para la actuación en ámbitos como la infancia, la adolescencia y la juventud; el ámbito penitenciario; la multiculturalidad e interculturalidad, la construcción de...
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La révision du système scolaire actuel est un défi complexe mais nécessaire.
L'école est l'affaire de tous, et l'engagement des citoyens est primordial afin de définir les finalités et les modalités du système scolaire. Une transformation de ce dernier est aujourd'hui indispensable, mais elle doit prendre en compte les aspirations et les propositions des acteurs de terrain (enseignants, éducateurs, directeurs etc.), les plus à même d'identifier...
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The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores.
To see if this world is producing better students, Linda Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland...
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The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA. It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, was created in 1965.
But discrimination, prejudice, and abuse of the law persisted for the next 2 or more decades. Even...
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Moms-the largest voting bloc-have had enough. Democrats have sold them a bill of lies. They've had their parental rights stripped, gender mocked, bodily autonomy rejected, safety imperiled, voices silenced, and children turned against them by the educational system they fund. Moms are only loyal to one party: their kids. Supermoms Activated charts the journey of twelve mothers from across the nation from varying socioeconomic, religious, racial, and...
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The United States is undergoing serious splintering that threatens, not only relationships, but also politics and society as a whole. Divisions are emphasized. Disagreements turn into name-calling and castigating. Issues are sharply painted in right or wrong, ethical and unethical, intelligent or unenlightened colors.
The country's motto is E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one. Philosophy and principle, not force or fear, unite the country through ideals...
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Tyrone D. Burton, Ed.D., esteems the Principalship as one of the most rewarding and challenging positions in the vast field of education. It is where the academic rubber meets the educational road of accountability. It is not for the faint of heart or those that lack the passion or desire to serve others through leading. However, in the context of other professions, it is one of the most difficult. As a little boy being raised by a single parent,...
15) Global Warming
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Global Warming or intentional.
How do we realize the need for change, even after being told the facts and have seen the results of ever changing climate change? Circumstances are becoming more intolerable for the general population to withstand. Nothing is happening fast enough for changes of policy to curb global warming. Billionaires flying to the stars for fun, causing tons of carbon emissions, burning holes in the Ozone layers. Is humanity being...
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Fox News host and New York Times bestselling author Pete Hegseth delivers his most important book yet: an excoriating examination of the state of America’s broken education system that offers a helpful road map to raising children to uphold the values Americans have always treasured.
Conservatives are familiar with the craziness on college campuses. They also have long assumed that colleges and universities are self-contained ecosystems with little...
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There ought to be a law! How many times have we said and heard this desire? From his extensive experience with crafting, advocating, and implementing many of California's earthquake safety laws, author Robert A. Olson takes the reader into the process by answering the critical question: How are earthquake safety requirements conceived and made into laws?
To illustrate the process, he draws upon history to show how the policy stage was set immediately...
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Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. Instead they collude with cost-conscious, corrupt, or frightened state officials to flout and undermine state capacity. They thrive on illegality, relying on private...
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In spring 2014 Peggy Kokernot Kaplan, a former Trinity University athlete and cofounder of the women's track team, emailed her alma mater's athletic department asking the school to post statistics from the team's 1975 season. It's no surprise that they couldn't fulfill her request, for Trinity had sparse records from the 1970s-not just for track and field but for most performances by female athletes before 1991, when the school joined a NCAA Division...
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"The bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement. Emma González called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. The uprising had begun. Cameron Kasky immediately recruited a colorful band of theatre kids and rising activists and brought them together...
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