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In this volume the authors explore ways that concepts of organizational learning are being applied within higher education settings by examining the role of institutional research offices, librarians, centers for teaching and learning, and institutional leaders. The editors demonstrate how concepts of organizational learning and learning organizations have not yet been fully utilized by higher education institutions to study their own organizational functionin… More >>
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This book offers an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges and contributions of urban primary schools. The authors set urban education in the wider social context of structural disadvantage, poverty, oppression and exclusion, and reassert some critical urban educational concerns. Recognising that practice needs to be informed by theory, they provide a strong theoretical framework alongside contemporary ethnographic data. Drawing on their extensive experienc… More >>
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A splendid account of the Supreme Court’s rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed study into tight focus around one major case–Brown v. Board of Education–making the path-breaking arguments of his original work accessible to a broader audience of g… More >>
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