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In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. If...

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How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizensNearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide...

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594634048Author Kevin CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam...

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The basis for a major documentary, two leading experts sound an urgent call for the radical reimagining of American education so we can equip students for the realities of the twenty-first-century economy. We prize academic achievement,...

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The Essentials of Education Advocacy: A Guide for Special Education Teachers is a valuable contribution to the field of special education and the professional development of special education teachers. This accessible text is written with undergraduates...

Real-world solutions to America's thorniest social problems-from housing to retirement to drug addiction-based on original reporting from around the world A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815758075Author Terry M. MoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going...

This book centers on the fact that public eduction is involved in the politics of the world just as other systems and organizations are involved in competing for the values and resources of the many communities. Keeping education out of politics or...

The basic purpose of this book is to help policy makers at all levels of government understand that (1) widespread adolescent underachievement is not susceptible to solution by educational interventions no matter how much money is allocated to public...

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...

Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education researches the history and trends of educating the populace in the United States. Demographic changes and socio-economic diversity have altered the needs for traditional approaches. Policy makers...

This book centers on the fact that public eduction is involved in the politics of the world just as other systems and organizations are involved in competing for the values and resources of the many communities. Keeping education out of politics or...

A Fragile Enterprise recounts true stories from the front lines of the battlefield that U.S. public education has become in the struggle of the privileged few and the disenfranchised many, The stories tell how poor, minority, students with disabilities...

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Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue...

Responding to the current national concern for enhanced commitments to early education, this book examines what states are currently doing, what has proven effective, and what the existing body of knowledge offers educators, policymakers and others...

April 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the landmark legislation that has provided the foundation of federal education policy in the United States. In Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools,...

The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness biased and inefficient information dissemination that has degraded US education research and policy since the year 2001, when a series of unfortunate...

The book U.S. Secretaries of Education: A Short History of Their Lives & Impact by Catherine L. Sommervold is a new approach to examining education history. The first Secretary of Education took office in 1979 and, excluding interim Secretaries, there...

The book U.S. Secretaries of Education: A Short History of Their Lives & Impact by Catherine L. Sommervold is a new approach to examining education history. The first Secretary of Education took office in 1979 and, excluding interim Secretaries, there...

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama's new national standards, curricula,...

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The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern...

Ron Paul - the former Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author - returns with a highly provocative and controversial treatise about America's broken education system. Ron Paul's new book will delve deeply into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737738503Author Jody Longo-SchmidFormat HardbackPage Count 652Imprint Emerald Calabria, LLCPublisher Emerald Calabria, LLCWeight(grams) 1066g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662828331Author Dr Mary ScandrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Liberty Hill PublishingPublisher Liberty Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621909606Author Charles E SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627873949Author Professor Alain F CorcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 345g

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