Education, December 2016 | Best Sellers

by LJ Reviews
Dec 22, 2016 | Filed in Reviews+
March 2016 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
March 2016 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
  1. The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups Christakis, Erika Viking 2016. ISBN 9780525429074. $28
  2. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Morris, Monique W. New Press 2016. ISBN 9781620970942. $26.95
  3. Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream Goldrick-Rab, Sara University of Chicago Press 2016. ISBN 9780226404349. $27.50
  4. Campus Sexual Assault: College Women Respond Germain, Lauren J. Johns Hopkins University Press 2016. ISBN 9781421419053. $29.95
  5. The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy Berg, Maggie University of Toronto Press 2016. ISBN 9781442645561. $26.95
  6. “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College Blum, Susan Debra Cornell University Press 2016. ISBN 9781501700217. $24.95
  7. Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why Tough, Paul Houghton Mifflin 2016. ISBN 9780544935280. $18.99
  8. Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education Bowen, William G. Princeton University Press 2016. ISBN 9780691172101. $24.95
  9. School Choice: The End of Public Education? Schneider, Mercedes K. Teachers College Press 2016. ISBN 9780807757253. $35.95
  10. Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University Axtell, James Princeton University Press 2016. ISBN 9780691149592. $35
  11. Bringing Montessori to America: S.S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign To Publicize Montessori Education Gutek, Gerald L. University of Alabama Press 2016. ISBN 9780817318970. $59.95
  12. Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream Angulo, A.J. Johns Hopkins University Press 2016. ISBN 9781421420073. $29.95
  13. Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt Akers, Beth Princeton University Press 2016. ISBN 9780691167152. $26.95
  14. “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation Malkiel, Nancy Weiss Princeton University Press 2016. ISBN 9780691172996. $35
  15. Children Who Fail at School But Succeed at Life: Lessons from Lives Well-Lived Katz, Mark W.W. Norton 2016. ISBN 9780393711417. $42
  16. Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University Shields, Jon A. Oxford University Press 2016. ISBN 9780199863051. $29.95
  17. The Separation Solution? Single-Sex Education and the New Politics of Gender Equality Williams, Juliet A. University of California Press 2016. ISBN 9780520288959. $85
  18. Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College Cuba, Lee Harvard University Press 2016. ISBN 9780674970663. $35
  19. School-Linked Services: Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities Bronstein, Laura R. Columbia University Press 2016. ISBN 9780231160940. $120
  20. Is Technology Good for Education? Selwyn, Neil Polity Press 2016. ISBN 9780745696461. $45
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