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Anti-Authoritarian Curriculum Practice
The pervasive politicization of education in the United States makes teachers' work extraordinarily challenging. Decades of bi-partisan accountability-based reform policies and …
Why Afterschool Matters
Increasingly, educational researchers and policy-makers are finding that extracurricular programs make a major difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth, helping to reduce the …
Titles Without Merit
This book examines the controversial issues surrounding the desire for titles (both earned and unearned) in Zimbabwe and beyond. The desire for titles is often associated with the …
Averting a School Crisis
It seems that almost daily we can turn on our televisions or sort through social media and find an incident that happened at a school that caused a disruption. Most people today …
Barnstorming the Prairies
To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon-and then imagination had to provide …
Metropolitanization and Public Services
Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. …
Sustaining a City's Culture and Character
Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic-a truly unique-urban place, that blends global and local, old and new. Yet, in a dramatically changing world …
Achieve the College Dream
Students with few resources rarely apply to top colleges. Even when they have the academic and extracurricular merits to be admitted to institutions like Harvard, Yale and …
Bay Lexicon
As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us. We lack the vocabulary to …
No Place Distant
While many of the roads on public lands provide a great service with relatively little harm, others create significant problems -- from habitat fragmentation to noise pollution to …
Leaving College
As enrollments continue to decline, student retention is increasingly vital to the survival of most colleges and universities. In the second edition of this text, Tinto synthesizes …
Black Beaches and Bayous
Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United …