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  • Social Studies Instruction, Learning, and Assessment in the Contemporary World

    Leveraging the Past to Form a New Future

    by R. Mark Epps, Rebecca G. Harper ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning Social Studies
    Social studies, perhaps more so than any other content area, also serves as the catalyst of change when we, the people, use our experiences to our own and others’ advancements. At its core, social studies has been both a concurrent limiting and freeing pursuit of knowledge, a pursuit that discourages and encourages us to learn from and about our experiences and associations, to learn of ourselves ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

    by Ben Shapiro ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build—and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Radical American Partisanship

    Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy

    by Nathan P. Kalmoe, Lilliana Mason ...
    "The definitive account of violent partisan hostilities in twenty-first–century American politics . . . one of the most important political science books in decades." —Michael Tesler, University of California, IrvinePolitical violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse earlier ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information.Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All ... Read more

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  • Freethinking

    Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind

    by Simon McCarthy-Jones ...
    F****or humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought.'Excellent and beyond timely.' A. C. GraylingScientific advances and new technologies are letting others manipulate our minds more easily than ever before. Now, those tasked with protecting our minds are finally preparing to fight back. As we speak, the United Nations is seeking to pin down a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

    by Don Lash ...
    "[An] excellent overview of the child welfare system . . . Most importantly, [the author] provides a discussion of how to create true change." —Tina Lee, author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare SystemA groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the American child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from ... Read more

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  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Education Law for Teachers and School Administrators

    by Jerome G. Delaney ...
    In the second edition of Education Law for Teachers and School Administrators, Jerome G. Delaney tackles some thorny questions and provides educators with a comprehensive overview of the legal topics they may face in their day-to-day jobs. This knowledge will empower teachers and administrators to be more effective in their roles. Topics include the implications of the Canadian Charter of Rights ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Fearless Speech

    Breaking Free from the First Amendment

    by Mary Anne Franks ...
    A powerful debunking of First Amendment orthodoxy that critiques "reckless speech," which endangers vulnerable groups, and elevates "fearless speech," which seeks to advance equality and democracy.Freedom of speech has never been more important—or more controversial. From debates about what's permissible on social media, to the politics of campus speakers and corporate advertisements, the First ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Case for Contention

    Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools

    by Jonathan Zimmerman, Emily Robertson ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Education Series
    From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such topics are so inflammatory outside school walls that they are so commonly avoided within them. And this, they argue, is a tremendous disservice to our ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Teaching America

    The Case for Civic Education

    by David J. Feith, Seth Andrew, Charles F. Bahmueller, Bruce Cole, Mike Feinberg, Senator Bob Graham, Chris Hand, Frederick M. Hess, Michael Kazin, Senator Jon Kyl, Jay P. Lefkowitz, Peter Levine, Harry Lewis, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary Rod Paige, Charles N. Quigley, Admiral Mike Ratliff, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Jason Ross, Andrew J. Rotherham, Mark Bauerlein, John M. Bridgeland, Alan M. Dershowitz, Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., John R. Thelin, Juan Williams ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Glenn Reynolds, Michael Kazin, Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, Mike Feinberg, Seth Andrew ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Higher Admissions

    The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

    by Marvin Krislov, Prudence Carter, Nicholas Lemann, Patricia Gándara ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How to make American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world’s first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a “meritocracy” in which ... Read more

    $16.59 USD