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  • Radical Teaching in Turbulent Times

    Martin Duberman’s Princeton Seminars, 1966–1970

    by Robert L. Hampel ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism. This book looks closely at the seminar, drawing on interviews with former students and colleagues, conversations with Duberman, and abundant archival material in the Princeton archives and the Duberman Papers. The array of evidence makes the book a primer on how historians gather ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Fast and Curious

    A History of Shortcuts in American Education

    by Robert L. Hampel ...
    This book examines four types of shortcuts in the history of American education—streamlined paths to vocational success, cultural sophistication, college credentials, and the efficient use of English. The chapters profile Norman Rockwell, the Harvard Classics, Cliff Notes, speed reading, a Doctor of Arts diploma for college teachers, and other riveting examples of time-savers that attracted ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Paul Diederich and the Progressive American High School

    Edited by Robert L. Hampel ...
    Series series Readings in Educational Thought
    Paul Diederich worked in five new organizations dedicated to transforming American schools: the Ohio State University lab school, the Eight Year Study, a Harvard institute to revamp English language instruction, the University of Chicago's Board of Examiners, and the Educational Testing Service. Throughout his career he wrote critiques of American high schools and set forth many proposals to make ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Why Am I Still Here?

    by Robert Hampel with Mary Hampel DeHay ...
    I had retired officially after forty years of active ministry in churches in Oregon and California. But in retirement, and at the age of seventy-five, I was invited by the pastor and elders of a church in California to join their staff as minister of visitation. I understand that in their invitation was a concern that older folks who could no longer be as active as they might have been would not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Recollections of My Father, Stephen Held Hampel (1893-1962)

    by The Rev. Dr. Robert Stephen Hampel with Mary Hampel DeHay ...
    My father, Steve Hampel, was a man who served his country in World War I. Less than twenty-five years later, during World War II, he immediately said yes when the Navy asked him to fill a need uniquely suited to his gifts and expertise.As I approach my one-hundredth birthday in August 2025, I wanted to honor my father by recording memories and sharing them with my family and friends.Dad was a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.For decades, ... Read more

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  • What Is Wrong With Our Schools? The ideology impoverishing education in America and how we can do better for our students

    by Daniel Buck ...
    "What is wrong with our schools?" is the question everyone seems to be asking, or more like screaming nowadays. Standard answers point to everything from school funding to unions to bureaucracies and more. In this book, Daniel Buck provides a different answer: flawed ideas - ideas about instruction, curriculum, even human nature itself - are the root cause of American schooling's dysfunction ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Joy of Teaching

    A Practical Guide for New College Instructors

    by Peter Filene ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in which the instructor pitches ideas to students to see whether they hit or strike out. Ideally, he says, ... Read more

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  • Excellent Sheep

    The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Teaching As a Subversive Activity

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    by Neil Postman ...
    A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity“A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they make even a dent in the pious . . . American classroom, the book will be worthwhile.”—New York Times Book Review“Teaching and knowledge are ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

    Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

    by Joni Eareckson Tada ...
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  • The All-or-Nothing Marriage

    How the Best Marriages Work

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    “After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessEli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known. ... Read more

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