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Academic achievement Critical thinking Study and teaching Democracy United States Education Aims and objectives Education Aims and objectives United States Education, Higher Aims and objectives United States Education, Higher Political aspects United States Intellectual freedom United States United States Universities and colleges United StatesHomayoun, Ana
Summary: "What if a getting [sic] into top four-year college is no longer the holy grail of success that it once seemed to be? What if the key to kids achieving their potential in life has less to do with grades or test scores and more with critical skills overlooked in schools? Erasing the Finish Line directly addresses those points by highlighting a reality about our education system that we seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.973 HOMMeier, Deborah
Summary: "A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience in education to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 MEIdeBoer, Fredrik
Summary: "In order to move toward a more egalitarian society, the American education system must be reformed to account for genetic differences between individual academic abilities. All groups, all races, and all genders are created equal. Not all individuals are. The Cult of Smart is a provocative and groundbreaking discussion of human potential, a topic which, in recent times, has been corrupted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.11 DEBCrow, Michael M.
Summary: "Building on the success of Designing the New American University (JHUP, 2015), this book examines the historical development of American higher education (in four preceding waves: colonial colleges, universities state universities, land-grant universities, research) and then describes the emerging next wave of institutions that will transform the field. What emerges in this fifth wave of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 CROMac Donald, Heather
Summary: "America is in crisis, from the campus to the workplace. Toxic ideas--bred in college classrooms and nurtured by politicized scholarship--have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in the larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyrannous. Teachers upholding rigorous standards or employers hiring by merit? Racist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.117 MACKronman, Anthony T
Summary: "The former dean of Yale Law School surveys the full sweep of recent campus controversies to show how these disputes threaten the best of America's intellectual traditions--including democracy itself. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 KROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic KronmanBerlinerblau, Jacques.
Summary: "A tenured prof. breaks ranks to reveal what's wrong with American higher education and how it affects you. Professors can be underpaid. Marginalized. Over-reviewed. But one fact remains: The success of your education depends on them. Part industry expose and part call for a return to engaged teaching, Campus Confidential shows how the noble project of higher education fell so far and how we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017