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  • Mr. Lancaster's System

    The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools

    by Adam Laats ...
    How a con artist "reformer" shaped America's modern public schools.Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System, Adam Laats tells the story of how ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Creationism USA

    Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution

    by Adam Laats ...
    Who are America's creationists? What do they want? Do they truly believe Jesus rode around on dinosaurs, as sometimes depicted? Creationism USA reveals how common misconceptions about creationism have led Americans into a century of unnecessary culture-war histrionics about evolution education and creationism. Adam Laats argues that Americans do not have deep, fundamental disagreements about ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Other School Reformers

    by Adam Laats ...
    The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America’s classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream. ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Fundamentalist U

    Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education

    by Adam Laats ...
    Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In the twentieth century, when higher education sometimes seemed to focus on sports, science, and social excess, conservative evangelical ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

    by Adam Laats, Harvey Siegel ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Education Series
    No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity’s origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem no closer to a resolution than we were in Darwin’s day. In this thoughtful examination of how we teach origins, historian Adam Laats and philosopher ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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    Fundamentalist U

    Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education

    by Adam Laats ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In the twentieth century, when higher education sometimes seemed to focus on sports, science, and social excess, conservative evangelical ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    by Christopher P. Loss ...
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    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

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    The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World

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