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Orelus, Pierre W., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2017
In this edited collection, authors from various academic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and personal backgrounds use critical discourse analysis as a conceptual framework and method to examine social inequities, identity issues, and linguistic discrimination faced by historically oppressed groups in schools and society. "Language, Race, and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Discourse Analysis, Social Differences
Finn, Chester E., Jr., Ed.; Petrilli, Michael J., Ed. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
Children cannot be truly literate without knowing about history, science, art, music, literature, civics, geography, and more. Indeed, they cannot satisfactorily comprehend what they read unless they possess the background knowledge that makes such comprehension possible. Yet most American primary schools have been marching in the opposite…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Language Arts, Elementary Schools
Tierney, William G. – Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University of Southern California, 2003
The essays in this collection represent the many ways in which the academic world is in flux. The collection suggests guidance for organizations and individual faculty, looks at decision-making structures, offers advice about empowering a faculty, and addresses the responsibilities of the academic in the current educational climate. The essays,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Essays, College Faculty, Systems Analysis