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The American Teacher: A History
An in-depth look at a profession that is alternately valued and reviled but is consistently a microcosm of society.
A nuanced exploration of identity, culture, and the emotional impact of social mobility and college education. Will appeal to fans of Anthony Abraham Jack’s The Privileged Poor and readers interested in post-secondary student success strategies.
Highly recommended for anyone wanting a moving glimpse beyond the better known stories of the civil rights era.
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Music in the Halls: The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
This short, thought-provoking work packs a punch. It sheds light on an education system that seemingly seeks to place its and societal failures on the backs of overburdened teachers and their vulnerable students.
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Holy American Burnout!: Essays
An important and compelling voice. Readers will appreciate this distinctive take on burnout.
For general readers who want to learn about and possibly improve racial problems within the education system.
Readers interested in organizational dynamics or the overlap between business and creativity will find much to consider. Recommended for libraries with a strong interest in business literature.
Not all ideas are new in this book, but its positive tone and clear writing will appeal to students, parents, and educators.
This distinctive, thought-provoking book is highly recommended for all humanities, education, and biology collections.
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The Student: A Short History
A brilliant exposition on students by an eminent scholar in the realm of psychology. Add to education and psychology collections.
One of the finest books on college admissions to date. For educational counseling collections, but it will appeal to general readers and parents too.
A common-sense and realistic approach to solving one of the most heartbreaking, serious, and vexing issues in American society. This important book is filled with recommendations that would significantly reduce the risk of school shootings.
This book does not offer any solutions or suggest any governmental or educational policies that would solve the problems it identifies, but will still likely appeal to general readers. A great addition to education and behavioral sciences collections.
This book serves as a powerful statement on modern U.S. higher education from the inside. For all higher education collections.
Through Robbins’s firsthand knowledge of teaching and her investigation into the lives of other teachers, she reveals the harsh realities behind this honorable and challenging profession. A timely, essential listen for teachers and nonteachers alike.
This exceptional title will likely appeal to readers interested in education, social science, and the elimination of student-loan debt.
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Teaching Public History
Highly recommended for academic libraries, particularly those with strong history departments. Faculty members will find much of interest here.
Will be of interest to graduate students, teaching graduate assistants, researchers, and faculty. Due to its lack of an index, traditional nonfiction and professional collections might benefit more than a traditional reference section.
This involving look at the teaching profession is recommended for any library with an education collection and where there is community interest.
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Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
Recommended for all education collections.
This book should be required reading for anyone involved in government and higher education. Highly recommended.
Librarians who need to give crash courses in digital literacy can get fast facts from the essays’ introductions, and the full entries will be valuable to those who have more time to go over them in classrooms where information literacy is part of the curriculum. Essential for professional-development and library-school collections.
Created by a corporate author rather than a writing professor, the work lacks a voice and is tonally straightforward, but the guidance (plus the 72 essay prompts and sample essays) offers grad-school hopefuls more than enough information and support to feel confident facing the GRE’s writing section. Add this to collections that already have general GRE test-prep titles.
With a helpful approach, an optimistic “You can learn this” tone, and clear guidance, this is a solid choice for collections.
This excellent guide is highly recommended for any parent or student who is navigating the college admissions process, especially Black students and first-generation students. Readers may even learn some new things and trends.
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Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
A thoughtful, engaging book for any reader interested in immigrant education.
A Suzuki biography will surely interest music educators and historians, but Hotta’s book (which encapsulates a century of Japanese history) will also appeal to general audiences seeking a musical lens on history.
Readers seeking a wide-ranging philosophical look at society, education, and the future, will likely find this work of interest.
Burtnett provides solid guidance in this highly recommended work for high school students and those assisting them with college decisions.
The honest, straightforward advice will be appreciated by students. A valuable resource for any college student.
Though full of thought-provoking ideas, the work doesn’t feel unified. Those with a vested interest in education may be interested, but the book is unlikely to entice general readers.
This work finds clear directions within a complex issue and makes a robust case for centering race in higher education policy.
Garcia effectively illustrates how scholars in education can use their work to influence policy makers; his book will also help advocates in other fields.
Recommended for college faculty, administrators, and trustees keen on aligning a college’s mission with the needs of its constituencies.
A powerful, enlightening read; highly recommended for readers interested in the civil rights movement, the struggle for educational equity, and South Carolina history.
Bloomsbury Publishing purchased ABC-CLIO in December 2021 for $22.9 million, bringing ABC-CLIO’s four imprints and 32 databases into U.K.-based Bloomsbury’s academic and professional division.
Essential reading for higher education administrators, faculty, and student affairs staff who are committed to student success.
De Stefano presents a balanced, well-written, and clear-eyed portrait of a complex, trailblazing woman who fought hard to change how children were perceived and taught.
This intriguing history will resonate with those interested in 20th-century educational reform, the digital divide, and instructional technology.
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The School Connection: Parents, Teachers, and School Leaders Empowering Youth for Life Success
Readers looking for advice on how to improve their relationship with educators may discover some new ideas. However, those who are more interested in nurturing their students’ love of learning or their academic success might prefer Deborah Stipek and Kathy Seal’s Motivated Minds: Raising Children To Love Learning.
This book belongs in all library collections supporting the study of education at all levels. Strongly recommended.
An excellent resource for anyone interested in educational reform and charter schools, and essential reading for educators considering teaching in such an environment.
Highly recommended. Dillard has written a remarkable book that will move readers committed to making the United States a more just and inclusive society.
A convenient, information-rich source for anyone interested in schooling; if it counters misperceptions about public schools, inspires policy, or even merely spurs research, it will have been a worthwhile acquisition.
A powerful presentation, personal yet balanced, of an important time in recent U.S. history. Required reading for anyone eager to understand the complex forces shaping American higher education.
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Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
This thoughtful book will appeal to anyone involved in assessing, developing, and refining general education curricula.
Gale, part of Cengage Group, on September 8 announced the launch Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School in partnership with Excel Education Systems. With accreditation through Cognia, the nonprofit NGO that serves more than 36,000 schools globally, the program, a successor to Gale’s previous Career Online High School, is designed to enable adults to earn a certified high school diploma entirely online.
Though flawed, this book would be a useful addition to libraries collecting works on the history of character education.
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Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt
Readers curious about how students went from working their way through college to facing an untenable situation fostered by “creative financing” will appreciate this thorough volume.
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Complaint!
A powerful indictment of universities’ failure to recognize the power imbalances that continue to harm too many of those who seeking academic careers.
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The Distributed Classroom
Aimed at higher education researchers, administrators, teachers, and learners, this book would be a useful addition to any library collection that supports higher education practice and research.
Historians of educational technology and education reform will relish this thoroughly researched and well-referenced work.
Detailed and compelling, though not as nuanced as it could have been, this memoir unearths particulars of the scandal that casual news readers may have missed. It will appeal most to readers with a strong interest in the Varsity Blues scandal.
This engaging book makes its points clearly and effectively; even readers with decades of classroom experience will come away with new knowledge and perspectives. A must-read for educators, students, parents, and anyone with a vested interest in an equal education system.
Bailey’s book is recommended for anyone who has an interest in improving literacy rates or who enjoys narratives of individuals overcoming obstacles to bring a vision to fruition. Directors of small nonprofit organizations will be able to relate to the successes and frustrations Bailey experiences, including the adjustments required by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Profound and thought-provoking, this work is recommended for anyone who wants to understand the structural inequities of the U.S. educational system.
The author’s choice to share her own story is laudable, and her work effectively unpacks the ways white Americans engage in racist and economically disadvantaging structures. It is, by design, a largely one-sided narrative, but one that many readers, especially parents of young children, will appreciate.
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Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
Recommended for students interested in applying to highly selective institutions.
While Patel gives readers an understanding of the activist rhetoric in higher education, she does not provide any examples of universities effectively addressing racism or offer concrete steps that universities should take to improve the situation.
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Get Real and Get In: How To Get into the College of Your Dreams by Being Your Authentic Self
Full of practical advice from an admissions insider, this work will appeal to high school students, their parents, and their guidance counselors.
This meticulously researched work is highly recommended for parents and guardians intent on understanding and navigating the college admissions morass.
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Mentoring Each Other: Teachers Listening, Learning, and Sharing To Create More Successful Classrooms
This well-researched book provides an excellent guide to the literature on this topic.
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Beginner’s Mind
Anyone who has been influenced by a beloved teacher will savor this work; educators will especially appreciate it.
Classroom teachers, curriculum instructors, and administrators, especially those eager to implement culturally responsive teaching strategies, will find this title essential to starting conversations about antiracist pedagogy.
For all readers, especially educators and parents, seeking a persuasive explanation for the excellent results of Finnish schools.
Gable’s suggestions are well written and thoughtfully conveyed; university administrators and others interested in higher education will find much to consider.
Occasionally the author’s promotion of her approach comes across like an infomercial. Overall, however, the inclusion of exercises, examples, and Soundbites from real students results in an extremely useful guide for parents, students, counselors, and educators.
Though there is some useful material in this health guide for college students, it’s not enough to make up for the omissions. .
This extensive, insightful historical examination reveals how U.S. education has perpetuated social inequality rather than decreasing it.
Next week, Sno-Isle Libraries, WA, will hold orientation sessions for its second cohort of aspiring IT professionals—nearly 50 residents of Snohomish and Island counties who will spend the next 25 weeks studying for CompTIA A+ certification, a common requirement for entry-level IT and computer service technician jobs.
For anyone interested in inspiring students and helping them develop their full potential as global citizens.
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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
This well-researched, carefully argued, and alarming book supplements those by Andrea Gabor and Diane Ravitch.
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The Starting Line: Latina/o Children, Texas Schools, and National Debates on Early Education
Recommended to educators and general readers looking for understanding of the value of widespread pre-K education, what makes it work, and ways it needs to improve.
Administrators, high school counselors, politicians, and college students will find significant value in this work, which offers not a final answer to the questions raised around higher education, but a starting point for further inquiry.
Every educator, from kindergarten teachers to graduate and undergraduate school teachers, struggles with reducing distraction in the classroom. Lang tackles this problem by offering strategies for students and constructive approaches and tools to encourage attentive behavior.
Wayne State University College of Education and the Walter P. Reuther Library Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs were recently awarded a joint $83,100 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to support the ongoing project, “Bridging the Gap: Archives in the Classroom and Community.”
This well-researched work is an invaluable tool for college-bound students and their families, guidance counselors, and college admissions personnel.
Furda and Steinberg provide a high level of detail, making this volume useful to parents who haven’t been through the process before as well as to those familiar with it. A helpful guide for parents with children approaching college age.
This extensively researched, well-written examination of racism, integration, and violence in the postsecondary environment is a major contribution to the field of higher education.
Undergraduate students considering graduate school as well as current graduate students will find the information contained here helpful, making this a useful guide for college and university libraries. Highly recommended for anyone curious about what to expect in graduate school.
Highly recommended for college faculty and administrators, and anyone interested in how college students can find meaning and purpose in life.
A solid addition for those dismayed by the inequities of the education system and looking to effect change.
Harris effectively presents one side of an ongoing debate; readers interested in K–12 education and charter schools should look to researchers such as Bruce Baker and Andrea Gabor for more critical views of what charters accomplished in New Orleans.
Those interested in inequities in the admissions practices of elite colleges will find this a considered examination.
For educators who yearn to see some of their own struggles and joys represented through another teacher’s eyes.
This comprehensive overview of BGLOs and their commitment to achieving socioeconomic equality for black Americans will appeal to readers wishing to learn about the African American collegiate experience throughout the 20th century.
This important addition to the literature on the academic experience will appeal to graduate students, those considering grad school, and anyone looking to expand their understanding of academia.
Gumbel relies on clear analysis and rich anecdotes to explain how one school helped its students thrive. A superb work for anyone interested in higher education.
Crow and Dabars support their exciting new paradigm for American universities with extensive data, theoretical frameworks, and integration of research in the field, illuminating their argument for a new approach to higher education that will better serve American society and democracy.
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