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EDUCATION:

The Alienated Academy: Wen-Hsin Yeh; The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 2000

Articulating Citizenship: 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 2007

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: 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.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

Exile Within: Thomas James; The experience of the 30,000 Japanese American children torn from their homes and incarcerated in camps left a tangle of social meanings that had not been inspected with the care it deserves until this book was written. Because they were schoolchildren, theirs was an educational history; and James tells it here, fully mindful of the irony of children studying democracy and its ideals while suffering as victims of the most undemocratic of all processes--imprisonment in a relocation camp solely on the basis of their race.; Hardcover 1987

Harvard A to Z: John T. Bethell; Richard M. Hunt; Robert Shenton; An alphabetical compendium of short but substantial essays about Harvard University--its undergraduate college and nine professional schools--this volume traverses the gamut of Harvardiana from Aab and Admissions to X Cage and Z Closet.; Hardcover 2004

Humanist Educational Treatises: Translated by Craig W. Kallendorf; This volume provides new translations, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, of four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists’ efforts to reform medieval education.; Paperback 2008

Innocents Abroad: Jonathan Zimmerman; Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Out of Smalle Beginnings: Margery Somers Foster; Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."; Hardcover 1962

Politics of Progressive Education: Dennis Shirley; In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers seized control of the Odenwaldschule, a small German boarding school founded in 1910 by educational reformer Paul Geheeb. Shirley explores how Nazi school reforms catalyzed Geheeb's alienation from the regime and galvanized his determination to close the school and leave Germany. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, such as Geheeb's exhaustive correspondence with government officials and transcripts of combative faculty meetings, Shirley is able to reconstruct in detail the entire drama as it unfolded.; Hardcover 1992

The Race between Education and Technology: 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 2008

Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936: Samuel Eliot Morison; Hardcover 1936 / Paperback

Tinkering toward Utopia: David Tyack; Larry Cuban; Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. David Tyack and Larry Cuban suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and also to keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Whose America?: Jonathan Zimmerman; As a result of years of urging from various ethnic groups, textbooks and curricula now offer an inclusive account of American progress in freedom and justice. However, moral and religious education remain on much thornier ground. In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of compromise and conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005

Widener: Matthew Battles; Since its opening in 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library has led a spirited life as Harvard's physical and, in a sense, its spiritual heart. With copious illustrations and wide-ranging narrative, this book is not only a record of benefactors and collections; it is the tale of the students, scholars, and staff who give a great library its life.; Hardcover 2004