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Tyranny of the textbook
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Beverlee Jobrack |
"In Tyranny of the Textbook, a retired educational director, gives a fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, and sold. Readers will come to understan… |
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Minority students in East Asia
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Yuxiang Wang,JoAnn Phillion,Ming-tak Hue |
"In <EM>Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses </EM>authors discuss their research on minority students' schooling (elementary to higher education… |
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Changing schools
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Thomson, Pat,Bob Lingard,Terry Wrigley |
"The raising of standards in schools is a global challenge to policy-makers. To overcome it means to remove the ongoing influence of poverty on school success. In an age of global mobility, economic … |
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Degrees of inequality
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Suzanne Mettler |
"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only… |
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The art of play
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Anna R. Beresin |
"What can the art of play teach us about the art of play? Showcasing the paintings of more than one hundred Philadelphia public elementary school children, folklorist Anna Beresin's innovative book T… |
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Deaf students and the qualitative similarity hypothesis
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Peter V.. Paul |
"The difficulty that deaf and hard of hearing students have in attaining language and literacy skills has led to postulations that attribute their struggle to a developmental deficit. Recent research… |
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