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  • Education and Sustainability

    Paradigms, Policies and Practices in Asia

    Edited by Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Chew-Hung Chang, Md Saidul Islam, Youngho Chang, Michelle Merrill ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Asian Education
    This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia. It covers national policies, institutional policies and practices within Asian universities, sustainability considerations for teacher training at schools of education, and pedagogical practices for sustainability in higher education. With contributors from universities and NGOs in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Toxic Schools

    High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

    by Bowen Paulle ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • University Governance and Reform

    Policy, Fads, and Experience in International Perspective

    Edited by H. Schuetze, W. Bruneau, G. Grosjean ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and market principles that have undermined the autonomy of the professoriate. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Achieve the College Dream

    You Don't Need to Be Rich to Attend a Top School

    by Maria Carla Chicuen ...
    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 Princeton, these students usually opt for less selective universities. Many ignore that top colleges are actively seeking outstanding candidates regardless of their economic background. What’s more, a great number of colleges ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Class Rules

    Exposing Inequality in American High Schools

    by Peter W. Cookson, Jr ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the “Great Equalizers.” In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolescents undergo different class rites of passage depending on the social-class composition of the high school they attend. Drawing on stories of schools and individual students, the author shows that where a student goes to high school is a major ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Leadership in Higher Education from a Transrelational Perspective

    by Professor Christopher M. Branson, Dr Maureen Marra, Dr Margaret Franken, Professor Dawn Penney ...
    Series series Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
    There is an abundance of research saying that not only is leadership in higher education ineffective but also that it actually undermines the essential work that should be happening in universities. Christopher M. Branson, Maureen Marra, Margaret Franken and Dawn Penney provide a new insight into leadership that has proven to be far more effective for all involved – the transrelational approach to ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Yale & The Ivy League Cartel — How a College Lost its Soul and Became a Hedge Fund

    by Edwin S. Rockefeller ...
    The book reviews the development of "Old Yale" from its origin in 1701 to its death in the latter half of the 20th century, describes the Ivy League Cartel that prevents price competition among members and makes possible persistent price increases, and explains how the cartel has been preserved by skillful lawyering and political support of the academic establishment. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sustainability of Higher Education in an Era of Post-Massification

    Edited by Deane E. Neubauer, Ka Ho Mok, Jin Jiang ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    This volume examines the sustainability of higher education massification throughout the Asia Pacific region. The massification of higher education has swept across the region over the past three decades in complex and astounding ways in some cases. The book inquires after the many faces that higher education massification is taking in varied country settings and seeks to identify the more ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education

    Approaches to teacher internship programmes

    Edited by Javier Calvo de Mora, Keith Wood ...
    Series series Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
    In Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education, expert contributors from across Asia and Europe explore and reflect upon the innovation and creativity in teacher education programs. Specific focus is given to the internships that provide students an opportunity for intensive, hands-on experience in schools. Different approaches to internship provide comprehensive information on a diversity of ways of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges

    What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It's Going

    by Chris Baldwin ...
    Series series The Futures Series on Community Colleges
    This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and opportunities it creates for community colleges, The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges: What It Is, Why It Matters, And Where It’s Going describes the many innovations underway nationally. The book is an ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Policy and Inequality in Education

    Edited by Stephen Parker, Kalervo N. Gulson, Trevor Gale ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy solutions for inequalities but also how education policy frames, creates and at times exacerbates social inequalities. It adopts a ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD