Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages. The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different...(展开全部)

Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection. With rare intervals in crisis moments, student life has always been dominated by grades and grade point averages. The authors of Making the Grade maintain that, though it has taken different...(展开全部)

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

作者：贾斯廷·罗伯茨（Justin Roberts） 美国著名的儿童音乐词曲创作者，美国国家教育出版物奖 (NAPPA) 获得者，也是美国家长严选奖（Parents' Choice Gold Awards）获得者。贾斯廷·罗伯茨毕业于美国甘比尔的凯尼恩学院，曾经是阿卡贝拉乐团的主唱。他曾经两次获得格莱美音乐奖的提名：2011年，其创作的儿童唱片《丛林体育场》入选第53届格莱美音乐奖，被提名为“*儿童音乐唱片”；《休息》于2014年被提名为“格莱美*唱片”。除此之外，贾斯廷·罗伯茨的音乐作品长期位居亚马逊儿童CD畅销榜的前十名，他的唱片《没时间打盹儿》 在过去的25年内连续入选“最被父母喜爱的儿童音乐唱片”，《融化》被 Time Out 杂志纽约儿童版块评为“30年内*儿童音乐的榜样”。 绘者：克里斯蒂安·鲁宾逊（Christian Robinson）...(展开全部)

作者：贾斯廷·罗伯茨（Justin Roberts） 美国著名的儿童音乐词曲创作者，美国国家教育出版物奖 (NAPPA) 获得者，也是美国家长严选奖（Parents' Choice Gold Awards）获得者。贾斯廷·罗伯茨毕业于美国甘比尔的凯尼恩学院，曾经是阿卡贝拉乐团的主唱。他曾经两次获得格莱美音乐奖的提名：2011年，其创作的儿童唱片《丛林体育场》入选第53届格莱美音乐奖，被提名为“*儿童音乐唱片”；《休息》于2014年被提名为“格莱美*唱片”。除此之外，贾斯廷·罗伯茨的音乐作品长期位居亚马逊儿童CD畅销榜的前十名，他的唱片《没时间打盹儿》 在过去的25年内连续入选“最被父母喜爱的儿童音乐唱片”，《融化》被 Time Out 杂志纽约儿童版块评为“30年内*儿童音乐的榜样”。 绘者：克里斯蒂安·鲁宾逊（Christian Robinson）...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

Ever since its first edition, education professors have relied on the Sadkers for their comprehensive coverage of all aspects of American education. Teachers, Schools, and Society provides in-depth coverage of the foundations of education (history, philosophy, governance, and law) while also presenting a clear overview of what it means to be a teacher today, and including comm...(展开全部)