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  • The Ambassadors

    by Henry James ...
    Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse de ... Read more

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  • Economic Evaluation in Education

    Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis

    The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges.This text ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

    Edited by George Levine, Nancy Henry ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into the work of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, author most famously of ... Read more

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  • Privatizing Education

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    by Henry Levin ...
    Privatizing Educationis a collection of essays written by such luminaries as Martin Carnoy, Christopher Connell, Wendy Connors, Fred Doolittle, Pearl Rock Kane, Frank Kemerer, Christopher Lauricella, Arthur Levine, Ellen Magenheim, Patrick McEwan, Lee D. Mitgang, David Myers, Gary Natriello, Caroline Persell, Mark Schneider, Janelle Scott, Geoffrey Walford, and Amy Stuart Wells who examine the ... Read more

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  • Education Across the African Diaspora

    New Opportunities, Emerging Orientations, and Future Outcomes

    This book examines the opportunities, orientations and outcomes that shape education for Black people across time, place and space throughout the African diaspora. It bridges gaps in education studies and African diaspora studies, noting the connections between these two formative fields as central to a fuller understanding of the history and futurity of African descendants around the world.The ... Read more

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  • Effective Schools in Developing Countries

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume brings together eight case studies which describe a variety of initiatives to create more effective schools for children of poverty, especially in the Third World. The initiatives reviewed published and unpublished documents and both qualitative and statistical studies were examined. Countries include Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Ghana, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United States. ... Read more

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  • Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia No. 3

    Edited by Henry Michael, Maksim Levin ...
    Series Book 3 - Heritage
    This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated, because of the lack of field work or because the materials on them had not been analysed and ... Read more

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  • Schooling and Work in the Democratic State

    A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue the goals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the ... Read more

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  • Privatizing Educational Choice

    Consequences for Parents, Schools, and Public Policy

    Controversies over the merits of public and private education have never been more prominent than today. This book evaluates public and private schooling, especially in regard to choices families must make for their children.While choice among publics schools is widely advocated today by families and states, public support for private education - including vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, ... Read more

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  • Profession 2012

    Series series Profession
    This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman’s introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark the journal’s thirty-fifth anniversary, the issue also features a retrospective sampling of ... Read more

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    The Crystal Circe (Unabridged)

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    Everyone knows dreamers and science mix poorly. Steve Arnsen has a terrible feeling his friend Douglas O'Brien won't be the exception to the rule , though he'll do everything in his power keep the younger man's feet on the ground. Yet O'Brien is determined to trace the strange meteorite he discovered back to its origin, which might just drag them both into the most exceptional 'dream' of all! ... Read more

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