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  • Class War

    The Privatization of Childhood

    Series series Jacobin
    In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providing education, childcare, job training, meals, and social services to low-income children, struggle with cutbacks. Meanwhile, private schools promise to nurture the minds and personalities of future ... Leer más

    $178 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Death and Life of the Great American School System

    How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

    de Diane Ravitch ...
    An urgent case for protecting public education, from one of America's best-known education expertsIn this landmark book, Diane Ravitch - former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum - examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch ... Leer más

    Antes $211 MXN Ahora $34 MXN

  • What Works

    Gender Equality by Design

    de Iris Bohnet ...
    Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big ... Leer más

    $259 MXN

  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Leer más

    $233 MXN

  • The Fourth Way

    The Inspiring Future for Educational Change

    This book analyzes three previous major change efforts, outlines their strengths and limitations, and offers a successful and sustainable fourth way to integrate teacher professionalism, community engagement, government policy, and accountability. ... Leer más

    $552 MXN

  • Generation on a Tightrope

    A Portrait of Today's College Student

    Today’s college students feel as if they are crossing an abyss between their dreams and the reality of an uncertain future. They are a generation seeking stability in a time of profound and accelerating change. They want government and our other social institutions to work in a time when they’re broken; they cling to the American Dream in an age of diminished expectations. They are walking a ... Leer más

    $554 MXN

  • How Organizations Develop Activists

    Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

    de Hahrie Han ...
    Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field ... Leer más

    $710 MXN

  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Leer más

    $536 MXN

  • More Human

    Designing a World Where People Come First

    People feel angry and let down by their leaders, as well as by the institutions that dominate their lives: political parties, government bureaucracy, and corporations. Yet the cause of this malaise, according to political -- advisor -- turned -- tech -- CEO Steve Hilton, is not being addressed by politicians on the left or the right.Hilton argues that much of our daily experience -- from the food ... Leer más

    $239 MXN

  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    “One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize itWe’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and practice of learning that emphasizes ... Leer más

    $189 MXN

  • Rich, Free, and Miserable

    The Failure of Success in America

    Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable—at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface. From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    de James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Leer más

    $438 MXN