Excellence and Equality

David M Fetterman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Fetterman focuses on what actually works in gifted and talented education programs. Complementing the psychological perspective on gifted and talented... Lees meer

Sailing Against the Wind

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Experienced American educators discuss the impact of social inequalities created by racism and sexism on the U.S. educational system. Sailing Against ... Lees meer

The High Status Track

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• The essays in this groundbreaking volume significantly advance our understanding of the process by which an elite school education provides graduates ... Lees meer

Community Colleges as Cultural Texts

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Questions whether, and how, community colleges confront the challenges of diversity and provide real opportunities for upward mobility. Community coll... Lees meer

Burning Down the House

Brian Pusser

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• A riveting analysis of the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California. Burning Down the House presents a riveting analys... Lees meer

Troubled Times for American Higher Education

Clark Kerr

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Clark Kerr, one of the nation's foremost educators and commentators on the educational scene, examines emerging problems that he predicts will influen... Lees meer

Increasing Access to College

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Focuses on pre-college enrichment programs as a solution to the problem of minority and low-income student access to postsecondary education. At a tim... Lees meer

Emergent Issues in Education

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education il... Lees meer

The Economics of American Universities

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• This book discusses the adjustment of universities to the changing financial environment. Its authors analyze the relationship between higher educatio... Lees meer

Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society

Bruce L Venarde

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism back in the mainstream... Lees meer

Change and Effectiveness in Schools

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Rossman, Corbett, and Firestone examined three high schools in the midst of change. Teachers and administrators consented to grant the authors a year ... Lees meer

College in Black and White

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• This book reports findings from the National Study of Black College Students, a comprehensive study of Black college students' characteristics, experi... Lees meer

The Economics of American Universities

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• This book discusses the adjustment of universities to the changing financial environment. Its authors analyze the relationship between higher educatio... Lees meer

Conversations with Educational Leaders

Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Educational leaders speak out in their own words--stimulating, accessible, provocative--on contemporary and controversial topics that range from diffe... Lees meer

The Harmony of the Soul

Neal O Weiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• The Harmony of the Soul creates a naturalistic grounding for ethics and a moral grounding for psychotherapy. It is an original and startling synthesis... Lees meer

Educational Knowledge

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• An examination of educational reform and change throughout the world, focusing on how issues of power and governance within states affect school pract... Lees meer

Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found maj... Lees meer

Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Reports on the challenges facing California and the nation in providing access to higher education during a time of demographic change. The dream of p... Lees meer

Preparing for College

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Analyzes and defines the parameters of effective college outreach programs. The remarkable diversity in college preparation programs raises a compelli... Lees meer

Earnings from Learning

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Documents the rise of for-profit education as a dynamic and powerful force in higher education. Earnings from Learning examines the historical and con... Lees meer

Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• This book explores key policy issues related to early childhood education. Through the contributions of various professionals in the field, the editor... Lees meer

Transferring to America

Rael Meyerowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Uses recent psychoanalytic theory to analyze the work of three contemporary scholars--Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, and Sacvan Bercovitch--while viewi... Lees meer

Education/Technology/Power

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• With a focus on educational computing, this book examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance. Examines the ... Lees meer

The Academic Kitchen

Maresi Nerad

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Frontiers in Education
• Presents a social history of gender stratification at the University of California at Berkeley through a combination of organizational theory and biog... Lees meer