Education
We're Not Robots
Raises provocative questions about how we care for infants and toddlers, and how to provide education and support for their caregivers.
Earnings from Learning
Documents the rise of for-profit education as a dynamic and powerful force in higher education.
Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education
Reports on the challenges facing California and the nation in providing access to higher education during a time of demographic change.
Girls in Power
A consideration of menstruation in the lives of teenage girls—and in the lives of teenage boys.
New Directions in Education Policy Implementation
Provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of contemporary research in education policy implementation.
The Well of Being
Offers a sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood.
Reforming Schools
Portrays the progressive school reform work of the Harmony Education Center over a 12-year period.
Fit to Teach
Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.
Graduating Class
Students from poor and working-class families struggle to succeed and graduate from an elite university.
The Gift of Education
Tells the story of how two philanthropists promised each of the 112 graduating sixth graders at Belmont Elementary, a school in one of Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods, a fully paid college education to the institution of their choice.
Making Modern Lives
Examines the effects of schooling on young people’s values, choices, and identities.
Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates
Examines the making of multiethnic literature and its place both in the classroom and in popular culture.
Inquiry and Education
Provides a central role for Dewey’s talk of education and how it fits into his overall philosophy.
Innovations in Teacher Education
Presents key principles of teacher education and concrete examples from successful programs.
Grappling with the Good
Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved.
Peking University
Discusses the first decades of Peking University and its role in shaping Chinese intellectual culture.
Burning Down the House
A riveting analysis of the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California.
Culturally Contested Pedagogy
Advocates for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination of mainstream instructional practices.
Promise and Betrayal
Argues that universities can help revitalize poor neighborhoods.
Struggles over Difference
Disrupts popular myths about education in Asia and the Pacific.
Education Empire
Traces the organizational history of Fairfax County public schools in Virginia, from 1954–2004, revealing the system's record of academic success.
Citizen Teacher
The first book-length biography of Margaret Haley (1861–1939) focuses on her political vision, her activities as a public school activist, and her life as a charismatic woman leader.
Speaking the Lower Frequencies
Shows how using texts from popular culture in the classroom can help young people to become critical consumers of media without losing the pleasure they derive from it.
Calling Cards
Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.
Urban Education with an Attitude
Teachers, community activists, and parents acknowledge and applaud democratic educational systems that establish partnerships between universities and the urban communities they serve.