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Author : William Howe Tolman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Higher Education in Rhode Island written by William Howe Tolman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Howe Tolman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book History of Higher Education in Rhode Island written by William Howe Tolman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712608
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book For the Common Good written by Charles Dorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
Author : Richard Sander
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465030017
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Mismatch written by Richard Sander and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but. Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races. Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue that alternative policies -- such as full public disclosure of all preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling -- will go farther in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this most divisive of social programs -- and for reforms that will help realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
Author : Thomas B. Stockwell
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book A History of Public Education in Rhode Island written by Thomas B. Stockwell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Thelin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421428830
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A History of American Higher Education written by John R. Thelin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone studying the history of this institution in America must read Thelin's classic text, which has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America's institutions of higher learning.
Author : William Howe Tolman
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ISBN 13 : 9783743320314
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)
Download or read book History of Higher Education in Rhode Island written by William Howe Tolman and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Higher Education in Rhode Island is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Dennis Littky
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416614605
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Big Picture written by Dennis Littky and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they'll need to live fulfilled and productive lives? These are just a few of the questions that renowned educator Dennis Littky explores in The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business. The schools Littky has created and led over the past 35 years are models for reformers everywhere: small, public schools where the curriculum is rich and meaningful, expectations are high, student progress is measured against real-world standards, and families and communities are actively engaged in the educational process. This book is for both big "E" and small "e" educators: * For principals and district administrators who want to change the way schools are run. * For teachers who want students to learn passionately. * For college admissions officers who want diverse applicants with real-world learning experiences. * For business leaders who want a motivated and talented workforce. * For parents who want their children to be prepared for college and for life. * For students who want to take control over their learning . . . and want a school that is interesting, safe, respectful, and fun. * For anyone who cares about kids. Here, you'll find a moving account of just what is possible in education, with many of the examples drawn from the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center ("The Met") in Providence, Rhode Island--a diverse public high school with the highest rates of attendance and college acceptance in the state. The Met exemplifies personalized learning, one student at a time. The Big Picture is a book to reenergize educators, inspire teachers in training, and start a new conversation about kids and schools, what we want for both, and how to make it happen.
Author : John R. Thelin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441462
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education written by John R. Thelin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This course book presents primary sources that chart the social, intellectual, and political history of American colleges and universities from the seventeenth century to the present"--
Author : Thomas Williams Bicknell
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A History of the Rhode Island Normal School written by Thomas Williams Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : René Alexander D. Orquiza
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978806418
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Taste of Control written by René Alexander D. Orquiza and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taste of Control tells what happened when American colonizers began to influence what Filipinos ate, how they cooked, and how they perceived their national cuisine. Drawing from a rich variety of sources including letters, advertisements, textbooks, menus, and cookbooks, it reveals how food culture served as a battleground over Filipino identity.
Author : Elliot Washor, Charles Mojkowski
Publisher : Urban Fox Studios
ISBN 13 : 0325050724
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates written by Elliot Washor, Charles Mojkowski and published by Urban Fox Studios. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, authors Washor and Mojkowski observe that beneath the worrisome levels of dropouts from our nation’s high school lurks a more insidious problem: student disengagement from school and from deep and productive learning. To keep students in school and engaged as productive learners through to graduation, schools must provide experiences in which all students do some of their learning outside school as a formal part of their programs of study. All students need to leave school—frequently, regularly, and, of course, temporarily—to stay in school and persist in their learning. To accomplish this, schools must combine academic learning with experiential learning, allowing students to bring real-world learning back into the school, where it should be recognized, assessed, and awarded academic credit. Learning outside of school, as a complement to in-school learning, provides opportunities for deep engagement in rigorous learning.
Author : Christy Clark-Pujara
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479855634
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Dark Work written by Christy Clark-Pujara and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.
Author : British Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 958 pages
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Williams Bicknell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations written by Thomas Williams Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
