Category - Education
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals...
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Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New York
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy makes the compelling argument that the educational disparities ...
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From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential pol...
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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience be...
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Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school s...
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Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complai...
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The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephant...
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What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps t...
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Harvard: An Architectural History
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard's architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting,...
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Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Four billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you’ve never seen i...
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The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /With our nation's urban schools growing more segregated every year, Susan Eaton set out to see whether separate can ever really be equal. An awar...
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Battle Hymn: Revelations of the Sinister Plan for a New World Order
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A book that I highly recommend. A well-written book with lots of important information." -John B. Wells, Coast to Coast AMThis book presents fri...
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University of Tennessee
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The school that eventually became the University of Tennessee was founded as one of the first three colleges established west of the Appalachians...
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History of Tamil Nadu
PaperbackOriginal price $24.49 - Original price $24.49Original price $24.49$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Tamil̤s have a long history starting from the pre-historic period. Retracing their history is facilitated by various sources. One-third of India'...
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Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's spe...
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A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. In A Search ...
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The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, Classic Edition / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The 65th-anniversary edition of an educational classic proves its relevance in examining today's educational quandaries McGraw-Hill first publish...
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From the New Deal to the War on Schools: Race, Inequality, and the Rise of the Punitive Education State
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education syste...
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The Citadel and the South Carolina Corps of Cadets
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Gain insight into one of the nation's most prestigious military college, The Citadel, and discover the historic past of the South Carolina school...
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The Montessori Elementary Material: The Original Guide for Teaching Early Education Using the Advanced Montessori Method
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /An illustrated guide to the Montessori method of childhood development and education, written by the renowned Italian physician Dr. Maria Montess...
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The Kings of Israel and Judah: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Jewish Kingdom of David and Solomon, the Divided Monarchy, and the Assyrian and Babylonian Conquests of Samaria and Jerusalem
PaperbackOriginal price $13.59 - Original price $13.59Original price $13.59$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /If you want to discover the captivating history of the kings of Israel and Judah, then keep reading...The history of the ancient kingdoms of Isra...
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The University of Notre Dame: A History
HardcoverOriginal price $49.00Original price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Thomas Blantz’s monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university’s growth and development f...
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Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Strategies of Segregation unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard,...
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Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lau...
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