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  • The Political Economy of Education

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    The Political Economy of Education provides academically rigorous yet clear explanations of the economics and politics driving today's educational systems and how economists analyze them. The book covers a host of topics central to teaching about education and crucial to educational policy. These include how to use the tools of economic and political theory to take critical measure of education's ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy

    Triumph of the BRICs?

    by Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Maria Dobryakova, Rafiq Dossani, Rong Wang, Isak Froumin, Katherine Kuhns, Jandhyala Tilak ...
    This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies—Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Already important players globally, by mid-century, they are likely to be economic powerhouses. But whether they reach that level of development will depend in part on how successfully they create quality higher education that puts their labor forces at the cutting edge of the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Cuba’s Academic Advantage

    Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Economic Democracy: The Challenge of the 1980's

    The Challenge of the 1980's

    by Martin Carnoy, Derek Shearer ...
    This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy. ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Transforming Comparative Education

    Fifty Years of Theory Building at Stanford

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    Over the past fifty years, new theoretical approaches to comparative and international education have transformed it as an academic field. We know that fields of research are often shaped by "collectives" of researchers and students converging at auspicious times throughout history. Part institutional memoir and part intellectual history, Transforming Comparative Education takes the Stanford ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Schooling and Work in the Democratic State

    by Martin Carnoy, Henry Levin ...
    A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue the goals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Economic Democracy (Routledge Revivals)

    The Challenge of the 1980s

    by Martin Carnoy, Derek Shearer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book is a discussion of and an argument for alternatives to the present structure of production in the United States—alternatives that would change the control of capital and how it is used. First published 1980, Carnoy and Shearer discuss the economic problems facing the 1980s and argue for a strategy to transform capital from corporations to the public. A book that remains relevant in today ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The New Accountability

    High Schools and High-Stakes Testing

    Edited by Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, Leslie Siskin ...
    "Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New**Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing. ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • All Else Equal

    Are Public and Private Schools Different?

    by Luis Benveniste, Martin Carnoy, Richard Rothstein ...
    Private schools always provide a better education than public schools. Or do they? Inner-city private schools, most of which are Catholic, suffer from the same problems neighboring public schools have including large class sizes, unqualified teachers, outdated curricula, lack of parental involvement and stressful family and community circumstances. Straightforward and authoritative, All**Else ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Education

    Integration and Contestation across Cultures

    by Nelly P. Stromquist, Nelly P. Stromquist, Karen Monkman, Karen Monkman, Jill Blackmore, Rosa Nidia Buenfil, Martin Carnoy, Carol Corneilse, Jan Currie, Noel Gough, Anne Hickling-Hudson0, Catherine A. Odora Hoppers1, Phillip W. Jones2, Peter Kelly3, Jane Kenway4, Molly N. N. Lee5, Lynne Parmenter6, Rosalind Latiner Raby7, Val D. Rust8, Crain Soudien9, George Subotzky0, Shirley Walters1, William M. Rideout Jr.2 ...
    The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as OglobalizationO is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural, and political life of nations. With increased opportunities for interaction and learning, education ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

    What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

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