Harvard University Press - EDUCATION

The Race between Education and Technology

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This boosted income for most people and lowered inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this educational slow-down and what might be done to ameliorate it.
Hardcover June 2008

Measuring Up

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Daniel Koretz
Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education.
Hardcover May 2008

On Course

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

James M. Lang
On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading sessions when trying to meet one's own demanding research and service requirements.
Hardcover May 2008

Unmaking the Public University

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Christopher Newfield
Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities in a campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society.
Hardcover May 2008

Education for Thinking

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Deanna Kuhn
Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn argues that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"--a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning.
Paperback March 2008

In Theory and in Practice

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST

David C. Atkinson
Harvard University inaugurated The Center for International Affairs (CFIA) in 1958 as a new research center devoted to international relations. Atkinson’s history of the Center’s first twenty-five years explores the connection between knowledge and politics, beginning with the Center’s confident first decade and concluding with the second decade, which found the CFIA embroiled in Vietnam-era student protests.
Paperback March 2008

Academic Freedom in the Wired World

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Robert O'Neil
In this passionately argued overview, a longtime activist-scholar takes readers through the changing landscape of academic freedom. From the aftermath of September 11th to the new frontier of blogging, O'Neil examines the tension between institutional and individual interests. Many cases boil down to a hotly contested question: who has the right to decide what is taught in the classroom?
Hardcover February 2008

Learning a New Land

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Carola Suárez-Orozco
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Irina Todorova
One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.
Hardcover February 2008

Artscience

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

David Edwards
This book is an attempt to show how innovation in the "post-Google generation" is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences. Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined.
Hardcover January 2008

Articulating Citizenship

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

Robert Culp
This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It also analyzes how students used the tools of civic education introduced in their schools to make themselves into young citizens, and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.
Hardcover November 2007

Creating a Class

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Mitchell L. Stevens
In real life, Stevens is a professor in bustling New York. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that admission here is highly competitive. But creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicated than most people imagine.
Hardcover September 2007

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Larry Cuban
In this provocative new book, Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.
Paperback September 2007

The Education Gospel

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

W. Norton Grubb
Marvin Lazerson
In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation.
Paperback September 2007

The Sandbox Investment

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

David L. Kirp
The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poorer kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. Writing with the verve of a magazine journalist and the authority of a scholar, Kirp makes the ideal guide to this quiet movement and campaign.
Hardcover August 2007