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Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
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Peter Sacks |
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We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling expose, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it - in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of American education that shows how schools, colleges, and universities exacerbate inequality by providing a...
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Hip Mama
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Ariel Gore (Editor) |
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The progressive parenting (well, mothering, anyway) zine. Letters, honey recipes, poetry, fiction, news bites, barbie-bashing and one contribution from a dad. Highly recommended.
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Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education
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Nancy Folbre |
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In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach—and trying to learn—at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a...
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The Child in the City
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Colin Ward |
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"The Child in the City tears down the walls and brilliantly highlights a culture which extends from Battersea to Bangladesh; the only true international culture, which in our search for 'knowledge' we largely ignore. Ward has produced a book which should go into every school, college and home, and also into every factory and office."—Times Educational Supplement
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The Child in the Country
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Colin Ward |
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The Child in the Country penetrates beyond the popular romantic ideal of country childhood and vividly documents the realities facing children in rural areas. Such controversial and topical issues as the decline of public transport, the closure of village shops and schools, the lack of access to fields, woods and streams, adn the influx of affluent newcomers are acutely analyzed in relation to the cou...
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DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
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Anya Kamenetz |
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The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students don't graduate; those who do have unprecedented levels of federal and private student loan debt, which con...
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Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex
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Peter McLaren (Editor), Steven Best (Editor), and Anthony J. Nocella, II (Editor) |
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"This book puts the lie to the myth of academic freedom and that the university is an unabashed training ground for radicals."—Richard Kahn, University of North Dakota
"Essential reading for anyone concerned about the stifling of dissent and free expression in academia and beyond."—Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive!
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured universi...
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Heather Has Two Mommies
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Diana Souza (Illustrator) and Leslea Newman |
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Originally published in 1989, and now in this wonderful 20th anniversary edition, Heather Has Two Mommies is a classic! The simple and straightforward story of a little girl named Heather and her two lesbian mothers was created by Newman and illustrator Diana Souza because children's books that reflected a nontraditional family did not exist, but after it's publication firestorm of controversy ensued....
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Who's Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers
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Yvonne Bynoe (Editor) |
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Not just your average book on motherhood, Who's Your Mama? treads new territory, taking on the unvarnished personal narratives of working class women, women of color, single mothers, and gay mothers as they explore the complexities of both motherhood and womanhood.
Unlike other "motherhood" books that focus on the experiences of affluent, married white women, Who's Your Mama? centers on ...
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