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1	The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics more books like this by David L Kirp add to wishlist The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poor kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. As "The Sandbox Investment" shows, their needs are key to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.29! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education more books like this by David L Kirp, Elizabeth Popp Berman (Contributions by), Jeffrey T Holman (Contributions by) add to wishlist How can you turn an English department into a revenue centre? How do you grade students if they are "customers" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, this book takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $15.40! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia more books like this by David L Kirp, Larry A Rosenthal, John P Dwyer add to wishlist In 1969, as Camden, New Jersey, was burning, the nearby village of Mount Laurel was booming with fancy new housing developments and manicured industrial parks. But there was no place in Mount Laurel for the handful of low-income garden apartments proposed by a grass-roots group who wished to provide for the town's African-American families, some ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $23.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Educational Policy and the Law more books like this by Mark G Yudof, Betsy Levin, David L Kirp add to wishlist This text offers thorough coverage of case law as it applies to elementary and secondary school administrators. Its interdisciplinary (law/education) approach integrates legal and educational policy throughout, using cases and articles with notes and discussion questions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.32! \| SVS
5	Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community more books like this by David L Kirp add to wishlist For David Kirp, a gifted storyteller and journalist, the concept of community stretches beyond a cliched figure of speech to describe what happens when people make decisions that reshape one another's lives. He has collected a fascinating variety of such stories from across America to re-create the immediate experience of community - tales that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.69! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gender Justice more books like this by David L Kirp, Mark G Yudof, Mark G Yodof add to wishlist Tracing the way various public policies have evolved, David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof, and Marlene Strong Franks find that the profusion of legislation and court decisions masks an uncertain and problematic sense of what gender-based justice means. They show that even policies not ostensibly concerned with gender--from tax codes to health benefits- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.71! \| first editions \| SVS
7	AIDS in Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics, and Policies more books like this by David L Kirp (Editor), Dr. Ronald Bayer (Revised by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00!
8	Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities more books like this by David L Kirp add to wishlist "This book should be read by every parent and anyone concerned about the impact of AIDS in the schools and neighborhoods of America".--Cleve Jones, The Names Project. "Reads like a book of superb short stories . . . an ever-deepening look at the innermost realities of American society".--Robert N. Bellah, co-author of Habits of the Heart. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions
9	Just Schools: The Idea of Racial Equality in American Education more books like this by David L Kirp add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $56.75! \| first editions
10	Doing Good by Doing Little: Race and Schooling in Britain more books like this by David L Kirp add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.00! \| first editions
11	Kirp & Yudof's Educational Policy and the Law: Cases and Materials more books like this by David L. Kirp, Betsy Levin, Mark G. Yudof add to wishlist see all copies from $3.11!
12	Eyes on the President; History in Essays and Cartoons: George Bush Retrospective: History in Essays and Cartoons: George Bush Retrospective more books like this by Tom Blanton, Barry Bluestone, David Kirp add to wishlist see all copies from $2.68! first editions
13	School Days, Rule Days: the Legislation and Regulation of Education by Donald N. Jensen David L. Kirp add to wishlist see all copies from $8.39!
14	AIDS in the industrialized democracies : passions, politics, and policies. more books like this by David L. Kirp, Ronald Bayer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.46!
15	Educational policy and the law : cases and materials more books like this by David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16	!communities more books like this by David L. Kirp, Steven Epstein add to wishlist "This book should be read by every parent and anyone concerned about the impact of AIDS in the schools and neighborhoods of America".--Cleve Jones, The Names Project. "Reads like a book of superb short stories . . . an ever-deepening look at the innermost realities of American society".--Robert N. Bellah, co-author of Habits of the Heart. see all copies from $1.99!
17	Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education more books like this by David L Kirp add to wishlist Wry and insightful, "Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line" takes readers on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success. see all copies from $19.80!

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