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Challenging the popular perception that the free market can objectively ameliorate inequality and markedly improve student academic achievement, this book examines the overly positivistic rhetoric surrounding charter schools. Taking a multifocal approach, this book examines how charter schools reproduce inequality in public education. By linking charter schools to broader social issues and political economic factors, such as neoliberalism, race, and class, "The Charter School Solution" presents a more complete and nuanced assessment of charter schools in the context of the American public...

Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals that the evangelical Christian faith of contemporary college students-and the rhetorical practice motivated by it-is marked by an openness to social context and pluralism that offers possibilities for civil discourse. Based on case studies of evangelical Christian student writers,...

Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying to meet that challenge while placing the developments in a larger international context. Distinguishing itself from other books in the same genre, this volume (1) brings in the diversity of insiders' reactions concerning globalization reform in education, while placing such actions in the...

This book is an up-to-date critical examination of education in Japan by an author of the widely read and comprehensive Education in Contemporary Japan: Diversity and Inequality (1999, Cambridge University Press). In the last two decades Japan has faced slow economic growth, a low birth rate and an aging and increasingly multi-ethnic population. In education we have seen responses to these challenges in national and local educational policies, as well as in school-level practices.

The book discusses these significant developments and raises the following questions: Why have...

Collins International Primary English is a six-level, multi-component course for the international market which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students. Collins is working with Cambridge International Examinations towards endorsement of these titles. Collins International Primary English is a self-contained, cohesive course which develops reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills at primary level. Consisting of students books, workbooks, teachers guides, and a digital resource, it includes a wide range of stimulating and engaging texts to build...

Midnight: Rise of the Black Vampires is a modern, multicultural twist on vampire stories of old

Ambrosia Wharton is a little faster and a little stronger than her classmates. She has all the problems of the average teenager, except for her daily need to consume blood.

Ambrosia Wharton, Amber, is a vampire.

Vampires have remained hidden from humans for good reason, and it's not easy to keep a growing race of blood drinking beings secret in the middle of a metropolis.

Amber loves her father, but his odd habits have always...