Subject: Education
Middle school matters: the 10 key skills kids need to thrive in middle school and beyond–and how parents can help
Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it’s either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other […]
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Indebted: how families make college work at any cost
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family […]
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American higher education since World War II: A history
American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, […]
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The knowledge gap: the hidden cause of America’s broken education system–and how to fix it
The untold story of the root cause of America’s education crisis–and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the […]
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How girls achieve
This bold and necessary book points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why […]
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The adjunct underclass: how America’s colleges betrayed their faculty, their students, and their mission
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little […]
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Children of the dream: why school integration works
The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as […]
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Read with me: engaging your young child in active reading
Read with me outlines the ABCs of active reading (ask questions, build vocabulary, and connect to the child’s world) to make these behaviors clear and […]
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The make-or-break year: solving the dropout crisis one ninth grader at a time
An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for […]
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Creating healing school communities: school-based interventions for students exposed to trauma
School systems are pressured to raise the level of academic achievement, but children who are exposed to trauma often bring a complicated set of needs […]
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