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Updated August 17, 2025
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Higher Admissions : The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing
Krislov, Marvin.
Ebook
How to make American higher education fairer In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world's first...
Raised to obey : the rise and spread of mass education
Paglayan, Agustina S.
Ebook
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children...
Learning to Lead : Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
Nájera, Jennifer R.
Ebook
In Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of education, Nájera shows how students' experiences in college--both in and out of the classroom--can...
A Burdensome Experiment : Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina
Tompkins, Christien Philmarc.
Ebook
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans...
Productive Failure : Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing
Kapur, Manu.
Ebook
Design for and turn your failures into meaningful learning experiences Written by a leading global expert on human cognition, productive failure, and learning methods, Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated...
How we make each other : trans life at the edge of the university
Zurn, Perry
Ebook
Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions--and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives at the edges of the university in ways that sometimes lead to policy change but always leave...
Campus free speech : a pocket guide
Sunstein, Cass R.
Ebook
A Forbes Best Higher Education Book of the Year From renowned legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, a concise, case-by-case guide to resolving free-speech dilemmas at colleges and universities. Free speech is indispensable on college campuses: allowing...
FROM WHITE FOLKS WHO TEACH IN THE HOOD: REFLECTIONS ON RACE, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY
Paper Book
A timely companion to the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too Progressive white educators on the challenges and reimagining's of anti-racist education, cultural responsiveness, and sustained liberatory...
Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation
Allmer, Thomas.
Ebook
Post-Anthropocene Civic and Global Education Studies : Beyond Posthuman Perspectives
Appelbaum, Peter.
Ebook
SHAPING FOR MEDIOCRITY: THE CANCELLATION OF CRITICAL THINKING AT OUR UNIVERSITIES
Burrell, Gibson.
Paper Book
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the...
AI-Powered Scholar : A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Academic Writing & Research
Eager, Bron
Ebook
Assessment 101 in Higher Education : The Fundamentals and How to Apply Them
Fulcher, Keston H.
Ebook
The Twenty Most Effective Language Teaching Techniques
Nation, I. S. P.
Ebook
From leading scholar and applied linguist Paul Nation, this book describes and explains the 20 most effective and efficient language teaching techniques and why they work. Backed by decades of research and expertise, Nation examines the principles of learning connected to these techniques, as...
In Search of an Open Mind : Speeches and Writings
Bollinger, Lee.
Ebook
Higher Education ICT Integration in Africa : Readiness, Implementation and Trajectory
Ebook
How to mentor anyone in academia
Wisdom, Maria LaMonaca
Ebook
A practical guide to the art of mentorship in higher education Mentoring is integral to how academics are formed and what trajectories their careers will take. Yet until recently, no one was trained to do it, and many academics have ingrained assumptions about mentorship that...
Artificial Intelligence in Education : A Machine-Generated Literature Overview
Khine, Myint Swe.
Ebook
Born to Rule : The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
Reeves, Aaron.
Ebook
The Economist, Best Books of 2024 The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024 A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics...

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