Education : Philosophy & Social Aspects

Big-time college sports embodies the ideals of amateurism and provides an important complement to university education. Or so its apologists would have us be......

This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions ar......

School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disadv......

Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved i......

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. ......

This gritty and compelling ethnography examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth ......

The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational......

Persuasive evidence demonstrates that gender equality in education is central to economic development. Despite more than two decades of accumulated knowledge......

"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is more and ......

This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City......

Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university's ability to equip society to deal with today's se......

Today's students need to learn more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic. They need to learn life skills to successfully manage tasks, form relationshi......

What are the First Amendment rights? How do you resolve questions about the rights of students, educators, and parents in a school setting? ...

Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of ......

For many centuries racism has gone unabated. TWEED is the exhaustive effort to try and understand where this dark phenomenon originated from. This book is ve......

Help students comprehend text through purposeful dialogue. The best way to understand text is to think and talk about it. This professional guide defines wha......

While politicians call for better standardized test scores, more security, The Ten Commandments in every classroom, compulsory classes in Patriotism, and oth......

Rooted in research on more than 2 million children about the effect of Developmental Assets® on fostering academic achievement and a healthy school climate, ......

The New School Counselor provides school administrators and school counselor practitioners with a unified understanding of the new roles and functions of the......

The sad fact is that many youths and children do not feel safe either at school or at home. In recent years, there have been increases in bullying, teacher a......