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Jacobin eBook Series

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  • Class War

    The Privatization of Childhood

    by Megan Erickson ...
    Series series Jacobin
    What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollersIn 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Death and Life of the Great American School System

    How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

    by 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 ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • What Works

    Gender Equality by Design

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.67 USD

  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    by Kentaro Toyama ...
    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Fourth Way

    The Inspiring Future for Educational Change

    Edited by Professor Andrew (Andy) P. Hargreaves, Dennis L. Shirley ...
    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. ... Read more

    $28.34 USD

  • Generation on a Tightrope

    A Portrait of Today's College Student

    by Arthur Levine, Diane R. Dean ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • How Organizations Develop Activists

    Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

    by 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 ... Read more

    $37.25 USD

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

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.93 USD

  • Pushing the Limits

    How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow

    by Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Nancy Steinhauer ...
    How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a deeper understanding of what we should be doing to prepare children now for the challenges of the future. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Education

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

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    “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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Handmaking America

    A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy

    by Bill Ivey ...
    America has survived an economic near–disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the delusional prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives should hold the key to quality of life in our coming post–consumerist society, but today Democrats have become timid, our vision of the good life marginalized by three ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rich, Free, and Miserable

    The Failure of Success in America

    by John Brueggemann ...
    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 ... Read more

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