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Charter School CityWhat the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American EducationDouglas N. Harris“The shift to independent charter schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has come with much hyperbole. Advocates of choice have overhyped the academic results and understated the role of school funding, while skeptics have asserted rising inequities for students and decried the firing of black teachers. . . . This book not only balances these accounts, but it explains the causes of both triumphs and shortcom-ings. It overturns many simple interpretations and deepens our understanding of the roles of market competition and government. Other cities consider-ing this type of reform should read it carefully.” —Henry M. Levin, Columbia University  2020 352 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables 1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69464-1 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Making Up Our MindWhat School Choice Is Really AboutSigal R. Ben-Porath and Michael C. Johanek“This concise and compelling book helps us look anew at our current debates about school choice. It shows that the real debate is not whether we have ‘choice’ . . . but how policies dictate who gets to choose, how, and with what consequences. Debates about school choice are debates about control, accountability, and the very goals and nature of ed-ucation as an individual and collective good. A wide range of audiences, from experts to those seeking an introduction on the topic, will find this book useful and insightful.”—Tracy Steffes, Brown UniversityHistory and Philosophy of Education Series2019 208 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 3 line drawings2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61963-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

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Ghosts in the SchoolyardRacism and School Closings on Chicago’s South SideEve L. Ewing“Rejecting the impulse to see education as discon-nected from American life and politics, Ghosts in the Schoolyard links the struggles of Chicago public schooling with the city’s notoriously racist housing practices. Ewing peels back the seemingly anodyne messaging of reform (‘school choice’) and its osten-sibly objective standards (‘test scores’) to reveal the insidious assumptions lying beneath. Perhaps most importantly, Ewing gives direct voice to those served by those schools often dismissed as failing. . . . Mix-ing history, sociology, and even memoir, Ghosts in the Schoolyard is an important addition to any conversa-tion about the future of public schools and those they were designed to serve.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates2018 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables 3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52616-4 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52602-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

HomeschoolingThe History and Philosophy of a Controversial PracticeJames G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters“This is an essential read for anyone working in or conducting research on education policy.”—Choice “In compelling, readable prose, Dwyer and Peters trace the political, legal, and religious history of the US homeschooling movement to offer a compre-hensive understanding of its roots. They then take a philosophical deep-dive into the legitimacy of contemporary homeschooling, considering the rights and responsibilities of its major stakeholders: chil-dren, parents, and the state. The result is a carefully balanced analysis that is essential reading for those interested in homeschooling policy.”—Jennifer Lois, author of Home Is Where the School Is  History and Philosophy of Education Series2019 256 p. 6 x 9 5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62725-0 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Suddenly DiverseHow School Districts Manage Race and InequalityErica O. Turner“Suddenly Diverse presents an important and timely examination of how two school districts responded to demographic change and, perhaps most importantly, the leadership discourses and policy trajectories leaders advanced based on unchallenged assumptions associat-ed with what it means to serve an increasingly diverse student population. This book makes an important and much needed contribution to the study and practice of educational leadership and policy. It will appeal to researchers, faculty, practitioners, aspiring school district leaders, policymakers, and advocates for racial equality and social justice in education, especially those who have become increasingly disillusioned by ‘colorblind’ attempts to promote educational equality and racial harmony without addressing the weightier matters of structural and institutional racism.” —Sonya Douglass Horsford, author of The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality  2020 192 p. 6 x 9 6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67536-7 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Patriotic Education in a Global AgeRandall Curren and Charles DornIn this book, philosopher Randall Curren and historian Charles Dorn seek to understand what role patriotism might legitimately play in schools as an as-pect of civic education. Patriotic Education in a Global Age mounts a spirited defense of democratic institu-tions as it situates an understanding of patriotism in the context of nationalist, populist, and authoritarian movements in the United States and Europe. “The authors write with elegance and authority: their history of patriotism in schools is masterful and their general theory of education largely compelling. Like its sister volumes, Patriotic Education in a Global Age stands as a powerful testament to the value of collaboration between historians and philosophers.” —Theory and Research in EducationHistory and Philosophy of Education Series2018 192 p. 6 x 9 7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55239-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Importance of Being UrbanDesigning the Progressive School District, 1890–1940David A. Gamson“Gamson tells a new story about progressive educa-tion that needs to be heard. Based on compelling case studies of Oakland, Denver, Portland, and Seattle, he shows how progressivism grew at the district level in urban school systems that were seen as laboratories for democracy. . . . The Importance of Being Urban should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding progressive education, education reform, and how we got the urban school systems we have today.”—Barbara Beatty, author of Preschool Education in AmericaHistorical Studies of Urban America2019 352 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 1 table 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63454-8 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00

Flunking DemocracySchools, Courts, and Civic ParticipationMichael A. Rebell“Michael Rebell has spent a career challenging advo-cates, courts, and legislatures to establish and provide children a meaningful right to a public education. . . . Weaving together empirical evidence, moral and political philosophy, and legal doctrine and strategy, Rebell makes the case that public schools should provide children the civic knowledge, cognitive and analytic skills, experiential opportunities, and fundamental character values that will ensure effec-tive participation in twenty-first century civic life. Nothing could be more important for our collective future.”—William S. Koski, Stanford Law School  2018 288 p. 6 x 9 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54981-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Requirements for Certification of TeachersCounselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Eighty-Fourth Edition, 2019–2020Edited by Colleen M. Frankhart2019 320 p. 81/2 x 11 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66628-0 $85.00 Your Price: $68.00

The Testing CharadePretending to Make Schools BetterDaniel Koretz“A scathing critique. . . . What is significant about this book is the thorough and relentless critique by a testing expert who carefully and sometimes technically dissects the evidence.”—National Education Policy Center “Combining the latest data and moving stories of people caught up in the accountability frenzy, Koretz demonstrates that high-stakes testing has corrupted instruction, led educators to cut corners and even cheat, and produced sham increases in scores, while yielding precious little in the way of real improve-ments in student learning.The Testing Charade is accessible, riveting, and spot-on.”—John Merrow, author of Addicted to Reform2017 288 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 4 line drawings11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64488-2 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Children DrawA Guide to Why, When and How Children Make ArtMarilyn JS Goodman“Informed both by psychology and teaching, and aimed at parents and carers, this richly illustrated book is a fascinating exploration both of why children draw, and the meaning and value of drawing for young people. Some of the art examples are truly wonderful.”—Bookseller “The heart of the book lies in its 134 illustrations, many in vivid color. The heavily whiskered cat, the reclining dog, the family group seen from multiple perspectives, and the ‘thought bubbles’ emerging from those tadpole heads remind us why artists such as Paul Klee and Jackson Pollock were inspired by feelings, intellect, and creativity apparent in children’s drawing.”—Times Literary Supplement  Distributed for Reaktion Books192 p. 61/2 x 83/4 128 color plates, 6 halftones 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-989-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)Sam Wineburg“A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. Wineburg offers a set of timely and elegant essays on everything from the nuttiness of standard-ized testing regimes to the problems kids have, in the age of the internet, in knowing what’s true, and what’s not—problems that teachers have, too, along with everyone else. A bracing, edifying, and vital book.”—Jill Lepore2018 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-35721-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Educational GoodsValues, Evidence, and Decision-MakingHarry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift“An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and, by dint of that, think about policy choices in education. The high quality and intellectually diverse team of authors work hard to make what could be dense and complex points as clearly as possible.”—Jeffrey R. Henig, Columbia University “This gifted team brings together insights from philosophy, political science, economics, public policy, and education to propose a framework for combining values and evidence for improved deci-sion-making. Every education decision-maker—and every education researcher—would benefit from reading this book.”—David N. Figlio, Northwestern University2018 192 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones, 4 line drawings 14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-51417-8 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

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Action versus ContemplationWhy an Ancient Debate Still MattersJennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule“Engaging. . . . Not guidance counselors but intel-lectual guides, Summit and Vermeule trace their students’ predicament to the origins of Western phi-losophy. ‘The rhetoric of action and contemplation,’ they proclaim, ‘is nothing less than the unacknowl-edged medium of self-understanding in the modern world.’ In their telling, it becomes a medium in which to understand, and criticize, not just the culture of fuzzies and techies at Stanford, but the nature of stress, the appeal of cowboy politicians, the point of education, and the search for meaningful work.” —Los Angeles Review of Books2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70663-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03223-8 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Adjunct UnderclassHow America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their MissionHerb Childress“A heartbreaking indictment of American higher education.”—Wall Street Journal “The Adjunct Underclass is a competent guide to academia, deconstructing and unpacking confusing jargon, interrogating the problems of faculty contin-gency, and urging us to center values that will guide us toward fairer treatment of faculty. The book drives the conversation about the exploitation of academic labor forward in a meaningful and accessible way.” —Science2019 208 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 23 tables 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49666-5 $24.00 Your Price: $19.20

Redefining Success in AmericaA New Theory of Happiness and Human DevelopmentMichael Kaufman“Is it true that graduating from a highly selective, name-brand college guarantees a happy and suc-cessful life? Kaufman explores this question using data from a relatively small sample of (presumably all white) men who attended Harvard in the early 1960s, delving into their college life experiences via archival interview transcripts, then tracking down and interviewing those same men decades later when they were nearly sixty years old. . . . Illustrated with detailed case examples and supplemented by more quantitative survey results from a larger group of Harvard men, results indicate four-year immersion in arguably the most elite of undergraduate colleges is, in fact, no guarantee of ‘success in America.’ . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice2018 304 p. 6 x 9 18 line drawings, 32 tables18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55015-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Intellectual Properties of LearningA Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John LockeJohn Willinsky“Willinsky’s lucid, elegant, and thoughtful book rests on a play on words. It is concerned both with the ‘properties’ of learning in the sense of its chang-ing characteristics, from the fifth century to the eighteenth, and also with ideas about what we now call ‘intellectual property’ in the same period, before the famous copyright laws of the eighteenth century and later . . . . It is a user-friendly summary of the conventional wisdom provided in many recent mono-graphs, an ideal introduction for students.”—Library & Information History2017 400 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48792-2 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

Writing for Social ScientistsHow to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, Third EditionHoward S. BeckerFor more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has offered concrete advice for overcoming obstacles and gaining confidence as a writer. This new edition has been updated throughout for a new generation of scholars and students.  “Do you have trouble starting writing? Do you always want to hold onto your work until it’s perfect? Are you afraid that you will expose yourself by what you write? Are you terrorized by ‘the literature’? If so, this may be the book that will change your life.” —Sociology, on the second editionChicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing2020 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 12 halftones 20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64393-9 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

A Perfect MessThe Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher EducationDavid F. Labaree“[A] course in American higher-ed history that you can hold in your hand.”—Chronicle of Higher Education “How did a ragbag of colleges become a towering assemblage of world-class universities? In this deft history, David Labaree tracks the evolution of the US higher-education system, an unwieldy array that nev-ertheless produced 40% of Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2013. US economic ascendancy, the rise of English as a lingua franca, and postwar research funding all played a part; but the fulcrum was the autonomy and strangely effective ‘anarchic complex-ity’ of the system itself. As Labaree asks, ‘Why ruin a perfect mess?’”—Nature2017 240 p. 6 x 9 1 table 21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63700-6 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Cost of InclusionHow Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College CampusesBlake R. Silver“A master class in ethnographic observation of a thriving college campus. Using an incisive inter-sectional lens, Silver paints a vivid picture of how college students from a wide range of demographic backgrounds experience extracurricular involvement. While women and racial minorities are often pushed to the margins of group life, despite their interest and assets, white men are rapidly elevated to the center—to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. As colleges around the country exhort students to ‘get involved’ and ‘find your niche,’ this deep analysis reveals that ‘belonging’ is not equally available to all.”—Laura Hamilton, author of Paying for the Party 2020 232 p. 6 x 9 9 tables 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70405-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

The Diversity BargainAnd Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite UniversitiesNatasha K. Warikoo“The Diversity Bargain illuminates just how much diversity has been commodified particularly among the elite, for whom good taste entails an eclectic palate.”—Atlantic “Highlights a persistent question facing diversity efforts in higher education: how do universities make the case for diversity in the highly selective, compet-itive, and rigorous environments that define them as elite institutions? . . . Many institutions have embed-ded the diversity bargain in their own marketing for multicultural programming. The author provocatively laments that by adopting such rhetoric, universities—and the students that they influence—may limit their ability to make real social change.”—Publishers Weekly 2016 320 p. 6 x 9 8 tables 23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65107-1 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20

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