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Does Government Need to be Involved in Primary and Secondaryby Michael T. Peddle
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 161.00This book is an investigation of soem of the policy issues related to the government's role in the reform of primary and secondary education in the United States. more...
Dissent in the Heartlandby Mary Ann Wynkoop
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 11.95"More than other local histories of campus activism during this period, Dissent in the Heartland introduces national themes and events, and successfully places Indiana University into that context. The research in primary sources, including FBI files, along with numerous interviews, is superior, and the writing is lucid and at times provocative." -- Terry H. Anderson, author of The Sixties This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values, Indiana University was... more...
Great books, honors programs, and hidden originsby William N. Haarlow
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 155.00The importance of this book comes from building upon and improving the historical literature on the liberal arts movement in specific, and higher education curricular reform in general. more...
Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women'sby David A. Greene
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 152.00This study analyses how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fit with her vision for higher education. more...
Two-year Colleges for Women and Minoritiesby Barbara Townsend
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 150.00This book focuses upon approximately 250 nonprofit, two-year colleges with a student body that is entirely female or at least 25 percent black, Hispanic, or Native American. These special-focus colleges include two-year colleges, historically black colleges (HBC's), Hispanic-serving institutions (HIS's) and tribal colleges, with some of these schools being church-affiliated. Many of these schools serve as shining examples of how a genuine commitment to access and achievement for female students more...
New Accountabilityby Martin Carnoy; Richard Elmore; Leslie Siskin
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 47.95When it comes to the issue of US education reform, hopeful politicians, liberal and conservative alike, have long touted the promises of 'standards-based accountability'. But do accountability-based reforms actually work? What happens when they encounter the formidable challenge of the comprehensive high school? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based accountability reforms at the high school level in the United States. more...
Harvard Rulesby Richard Bradley
HarperCollins 2005; US$ 10.99It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning. And everyone worried that Harvard's outgoing president, Neil Rudenstine, epitomized an unhappy trend: the university president as full-time fund-raiser. Harvard may have possessed a $19 billion endowment, but had the university lost its soul? Written despite the university's official opposition, Harvard Rules uncovers what really goes on behind Harvard's storied walls -- the politics, sex, ambition, infighting, and intrigue that run rampant within the world's most... more...
The Gold and the Blue. Volume 1, Academic Triumphsby Clark Kerr
University of California Press 2001; US$ 12.95One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university through its golden years--a time of both great advancement and great conflict. more...
Scandals and Scoundrelsby Ron Robin
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95Ron Robin takes an intriguing look at the shifting nature of academic and public discourse in this incisive consideration of recent academic scandals?including charges of plagiarism against Stephen Ambrose, Derek Freeman's attempt to debunk Margaret Mead's research, Michael Bellesiles's alleged fabrication of an early America without weapons, Joseph Ellis's imaginary participation in major historical events of the 1960s, Napoleon Chagnon's creation and manipulation of a "Stone Age people," and accusations that Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú's testimony on the Maya holocaust was in part fiction. Scandals and Scoundrels makes the case that, contrary to popular imagery, we're not living in particularly deviant times and there is no... more...
The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949?1967by Clark Kerr
University of California Press 2003; US$ 40.00The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California, Clark Kerr was chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967. He saw the university through its golden years?a time of both great advancement and great conflict. This absorbing memoir is an intriguing insider's account of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's unique... more...









