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Best Practice, Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools
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Best practice is the pillar that supports powerful teaching, and the first two editions of the highly acclaimed Best Practice have promoted instructional excellence for more than ten years. Now the third edition, with forty-five percent new material, does still more to make the big ideas of education accessible, identifying the teaching methods that help students learn, explaining how to implement them in the classroom, and showing what exemplary instruction really looks like. Recognizing that the themes of American education have changed dramatically, Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde reconvened, and their new edition provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching methods in … More >>
Best Practice, Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools
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The Great Rip-Off in American Education: Undergrads Underserved
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Be prepared to question everything you know about higher learning in America. Are colleges and universities short-changing American students and their parents? Is a bachelor’s degree from an American university really worth the ever-rising cost of obtaining one? According to former university president Dr. Mel Scarlett, unless major changes are made to the American system of higher education, the disparity between the quality and the price of education is only going to get worse. The rise in tuition has substantially outpaced inflation over the last few decades, while the resources of larger “research” universities have shifted dramatically to feed the insatiable appetite of today’s faculties, whose “publ… More >>
The Great Rip-Off in American Education: Undergrads Underserved
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Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
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Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the “natural aristocracy of talent and virtue.” Although in many ways American higher education has fulfilled Jefferson’s vision by achieving a widespread level of excellence, it has not achieved the objective of equity implicit in Jefferson’s statement. In Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin explore the cause for this divide. Employing historical research, examination of the most recent social science and public policy scholarship, international comparisons, and detailed empirical analysis of rich new data, the authors study the intersection betw… More >>
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
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