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THE LATINA/O PATHWAY TO THE PH.D.: ABRIENDO CAMINOS

Editors: Jeanett Castellanos, Alberta M. Gloria, et al.

Publisher: Stylus Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781579221072

The Latina/o population constitutes the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the U.S. and is disproportionately under-represented in college and in graduate programs.

This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models and training for Latinas/os aspiring to the Ph.D.

The book then addresses the unique experiences and challenges faced by Latina/os in doctoral programs, and offers guidance for students and those responsible for them.

GRADUATE ADMISSIONS ESSAYS, FOURTH EDITION: WRITE YOUR WAY INTO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF YOUR CHOICE

Author: Donald Asher

Publisher: Ten Speed press; Revised edition

ISBN-13: 9781607743217

Based on thousands of interviews with successful graduate students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sample letters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships, and postgrad applications.

DOING ECONOMICS: WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED IN GRAD SCHOOL—BUT DIDN’T

Author: Marc F. Bellemare

Publisher: The MIT Press

ISBN-13: 9780262543552

Newly minted research economists are equipped with a PhD’s worth of technical and scientific expertise but often lack some of the practical tools necessary for “doing economics.” With this book, economics professor Marc Bellemare breaks down the components of doing research economics and examines each in turn: communicating your research findings in a paper; presenting your findings to other researchers by giving a talk; submitting your paper to a peer-reviewed journal; funding your research program through grants; and advising PhD, master’s, and undergraduate students. 

SPEED READING: LEARN TO READ A 200+ PAGE BOOK IN 1 HOUR

Authors: Kam Knight

Publisher: MindLily.com

ISBN-13: 9781957170107

This has become the go to book for students, teachers, educators, professionals, and home-school parents and children to quickly improve their reading speed. It presents simple tips to not only accelerate your reading, but also understanding and memory. Unlike other books that only teach how to skim and scan, this taps into your brain and eyes' amazing ability to naturally read more words in a shorter time. With a few simple shifts, you can double to triple your reading speed in minutes. No Skimming, No Scanning, but reading Every Word with higher speed.

Educational Policy  From Penn State University Press

DEMOCRACY, DELIBERATION, AND EDUCATION

Author: Robert Asen

Publisher: Penn State University Press

ISBN-13: 9780271067094 

The school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Asen’s research reveals as much about the possibilities and pitfalls of local democracy as it does about educational policy. From issues as old as racial integration and as contemporary as the recognition of the Gay-Straight Alliance in high schools, Democracy, Deliberation, and Education illustrates how ordinary folks build and sustain their vision for a community and its future through consequential public decision making.

THINKING TOGETHER

Editor: Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob

Publisher: Penn State University Press 

ISBN-13: 9780271080871

Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how people approached similar questions of learning and difference in the nineteenth century. By highlighting people, places, and purposes that diversified public discourse, this book offers scholars across the humanities new insights and perspectives on how difference enhances the human project of thinking together.

ROUSSEAU ON EDUCATION, FREEDOM AND JUDGMENT

Author: Denise Schaeffer

Publisher: Penn State University Press

ISBN-13: 9780271062099

Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.

CONGRESS AND THE CLASSROOM

Author: Lee W. Anderson

Publisher: Penn State University Press

ISBN-13: 9780271032245

Few pieces of legislation in recent years have caused as much public controversy as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This book analyzes the passage of this law, compares it to other federal education policies of the last fifty years, and shows that No Child Left Behind is an indicator of how and why conservative and liberal ideologies are gradually transforming. This is a fascinating story about the changing directions of politics today, and it will intrigue anyone interested in the history and politics of education reform.