The Accidental Equalizer
How Luck Determines Pay after College
Jessi Streib
A startling discovery—that job market success after college is largely random—forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 3 tables
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82931-9 $27.50
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Polished
College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility
Melissa Osborne
An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students.
2024 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 tables
3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83304-0 $22.50
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Wasted Education
How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
John D. Skrentny
An urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82579-3 $30.00
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Indebted Mobilities
Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University
Susan Thomas
An ethnographic rendering of overseas students’ fraught encounters studying at an American public university.
2024 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2
4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83070-4 $27.50
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Cancel Wars
How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
Sigal R. Ben-Porath
An even-handed exploration of the polarized state of campus politics that suggests ways for schools and universities to encourage discourse across difference.
2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82380-5 $20.00
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Designed to Fail
Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve
Roseann Liu
A provocative examination of how systemic racism in education funding is sustained.
2024 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones, 2 tables
7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83271-5 $22.50
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Misconceiving Merit
Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering
Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech
An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes.
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 15 line drawings, 9 tables
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82015-6 $27.50
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New in Paperback Race at the Top
Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
Natasha Warikoo
An illuminating, in-depth look at competition in diverse suburban high schools.
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 4 tables
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83343-9 $19.00
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Verified
How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.
2023 240 p. 6 x 8 100 color plates
9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82206-8 $14.00
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Teaching Expertise in Three Countries
Japan, China, and the United States
Akiko Hayashi
A comparison of the development of expertise in preschool teaching in China, Japan, and the United States.
2022 208 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 1 tables
11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81867-2 $27.50
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Redefining Geek
Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens
Cassidy Puckett
A surprising and deeply researched look at how everyone can develop tech fluency by focusing on five easily developed learning habits.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 10 tables
10 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-73269-5 $18.00
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Reforming the Reform
Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State
Susan L. Moffitt, Michaela Krug
O’Neill and David K. Cohen
A study of the problems educational leaders face in pursuit of reform, and how these issues cyclically translate into future topics of reform.
2023 336 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 10 tables
12 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82694-3 $32.50
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The Enduring Classroom Teaching Then and Now
Larry Cuban
A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.
2023 144 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82883-1 $25.00
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New in Paperback
The Science of Reading Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
Adrian Johns
For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
2024 504 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones
15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83673-7 $25.00
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Structuring Inequality
How Schooling, Housing, and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education
Tracy L. Steffes
How inequality was forged, fought over, and forgotten through public policy in metropolitan Chicago.
2024 416 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones, 2 tables
14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83226-5 $32.50
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Touchy Subject
The History and Philosophy of Sex Education
Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen
A case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context.
History and Philosophy of Education Series
2022 240 p. 6 x 9
16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82218-1 $25.00
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Exchange of Ideas
The Economy of Higher Education in Early America
Adam R. Nelson
The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.
2023 448 p. 6 x 9
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82849-7 $50.00
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Other People’s Colleges
The Origins of American Higher Education Reform
Ethan W. Ris
An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education.
2022 368 p. 6 x 9
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82022-4 $35.00
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Capital of Mind
The Idea of a Modern American University
Adam R. Nelson
The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.
2024 480 p. 6 x 9
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82920-3 $50.00
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Whose America?
Culture Wars in the Public Schools
Jonathan Zimmerman
In this expanded edition of his 2002 book, Zimmerman surveys how battles over public education have become conflicts at the heart of American national identity.
2022 360 p. 6 x 9
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82039-2 $30.00
Your Price: $21.00
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