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American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination
Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one's …
Things to Do in Hell
Are we living in a shitty heaven or a tender hell? Chris Martin’s poems wrestle with reconciling the shocking horrors and common graces of everyday life in America.Join Chris …
Learning as a Generative Activity
During the past twenty-five years, researchers have made impressive advances in pinpointing effective learning strategies (namely, activities the learner engages in during learning …
Navigating the Journey in Budgeting
As local education agencies, school districts are charged with educating students so that they are equipped with the knowledge and skills to be productive members of society as …
A Place to Be Navajo
A Place To Be Navajo is the only book-length ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration …
School Choice In The Real World
This book presents the first published accounts and evaluations of the first free market in education in the U.S., Arizona charter schools.. The charter school is fast becoming …
Better Feedback, Improved Lessons
Good teaching does not just happen during classroom instruction. The instructional design practices teachers participate in outside of instruction can have impact on potential …
Second Sight
He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision …
A Watershed Year
In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size and the rapidity of their rise ruined farmlands and …
Public Education in Turbulent Times
Public Education in Turbulent Times communicates a bold vision for the future of education, addressing the evolving purpose of American public education and the structural …
Trendsetting Charter Schools
This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case …