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Judging Bush by Robert Maranto
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W. Bush will leave as 43rd President of the United States. Recognizing that Bush the Younger has been variously described as dimwitted,... -
The Free Inquiry Papers by Robert Maranto 9780844750675
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844750675Author Robert MarantoFormat PaperbackImprint -
Homeschooling in the 21st Century: Research and Prospects by Robert Maranto
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Education began on the most intimate levels: the family and the community. With industrialization, education became professionalized and bureaucratized, typically conducted in schools rather than... -
Homeschooling in the 21st Century: Research and Prospects by Robert Maranto 9781138501409
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Education began on the most intimate levels: the family and the community. With industrialization, education became professionalized and bureaucratized, typically conducted in schools rather than... -
President Obama and Education Reform: The Personal and the Political by Robert Maranto 9781137030924
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.30This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael... -
President Obama and Education Reform: The Personal and the Political by Robert Maranto 9781137030917
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.92This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael... -
The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms by Robert Maranto 9780844743172
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £25.15The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want... -
The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils by Robert Maranto 9781349534128
Booksplease Price: £46.28Second term presidencies are distinctive, not least as the president no longer has to run for re-election. Placing the second term of George W. Bush in comparative perspective, this fascinating book... -
The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils by Robert Maranto 9781403972910
Booksplease Price: £46.58Second term presidencies are distinctive, not least as the president no longer has to run for re-election. Placing the second term of George W. Bush in comparative perspective, this fascinating book... -
COVID-19 and Schools: Policy, Stakeholders, and School Choice by Robert Maranto 9781032546872
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book features contributions from leading experts who present peer reviewed research on how the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic affected U.S. teachers, students, parents, teaching practices,... -
Education Reform in the Obama Era: The Second Term and the 2016 Election by Robert Maranto 9781137582119
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama's education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The... -
Politics and Bureaucracy in the Modern Presidency: Careerists and Appointees in the Reagan Administration by Robert Maranto 9780313283321
Booksplease Price: £61.63This is the first large-scale aggregate data study of career-noncareer relations in U.S. administrations. This research is put into the perspective of a succinct history of relations between... -
School Choice In The Real World: Lessons From Arizona Charter Schools by Robert Maranto
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89School choice is the most talked about reform of American public education, yet writings about choice remain highly speculative because no state has adopted a free market approach to education--until... -
Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice Robert Maranto (University of Arkansas, USA) 9781032084183
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice offers theoretical essays and empirical studies from leading researchers on religion and schooling.Religious authority and emphasis on fairness and... -
Beyond a Government of Strangers: How Career Executives and Political Appointees Can Turn Conflict to Cooperation by Robert Maranto 9780739110898
Booksplease Price: £81.47With rare exceptions, few large institutions change bosses every two or three years. Yet the U.S. Government has temps on top. Thousands of political appointees come in to run an agency or department... -
American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System by James S. Bowman 9780849305344
Booksplease Price: £90.68Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested in the quality of American democracy. Civil service... -
Teachers As Owners: A Key to Revitalizing Public Education by Edward J. Dirkswager 9780810843714
Booksplease Price: £46.28'What if teachers were owners, not employees?' Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching profession and to revitalize public education. This book... -
The Learning Equation: The Education Process and Effective Schools, Teachers, and Students by Daniel Wentland 9781475863598
Booksplease Price: £40.71Maximizing the learning environment and focusing on the principles of learning are the most critical needs facing educational leaders of every rank. The Learning Equation: The Education Process and... -
The Learning Equation: The Education Process and Effective Schools, Teachers, and Students by Daniel Wentland 9781475863581
Booksplease Price: £79.41Maximizing the learning environment and focusing on the principles of learning are the most critical needs facing educational leaders of every rank. The Learning Equation: The Education Process and... -
The Obama Presidency: Change and Continuity by Andrew Dowdle
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. However, President Obama's first two years in office... -
The Politics of Knowledge: When Loyalty Minimizes Learning by Richard K Laird 9781498576017
Booksplease Price: £37.81Whether or not the U.S. is in decline can be debated, but there is evidence that its political system is becoming less able to solve major problems. This is in part because loyalty to a belief or an... -
The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society by Neal P. McCluskey 9781475864250
Booksplease Price: £37.81American public schooling was established to unify diverse people and prepare citizens for democracy. Intuitively, it would teach diverse people the same values, preferably in the same buildings,... -
The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society by Neal P. McCluskey 9781475864243
Booksplease Price: £81.47American public schooling was established to unify diverse people and prepare citizens for democracy. Intuitively, it would teach diverse people the same values, preferably in the same buildings,... -
Bureaucratic Ambition: Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator by Manuel P. Teodoro 9781421402451
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.11Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial... -
Lessons of the Pandemic: Disruption, Innovation, and What Schools Need to Move Forward by David T. Marshall 9781462553877
Booksplease Price: £32.63The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education have been pervasive and profound. This engaging book concisely outlines the current crisis in schools in the core areas of student learning,... -
Journeys of Charter School Creators: Leadership for the Long Haul by Maria M. Leahy 9781475846997
Booksplease Price: £51.71Journeys of Charter School Creators tells of the journeys of ten thriving charter schools throughout the United States and their leaders over the past 20 years. The first seven cases are follow-up... -
A Guide to Charter Schools: Research and Practical Advice for Educators by Myron S. Kayes 9781578864058
Booksplease Price: £56.66Here is a short edited volume that brings together in one place, the best scholarly articles in charter schooling by national experts and leaders, written in a user-friendly fashion. It is the ideal... -
When Police Kill by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51"A remarkable book."-Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco ChronicleDeaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police occur... -
Exploiting Children: School Board Members Who Cross The Line by Matt Spencer 9781475806359
Booksplease Price: £40.79America's citizens want children to receive a high-quality education in clean, orderly and safe schools staffed with quality teachers, support staff and courageous educational leaders. In many...