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Hardcover:
9781612506357 | Harvard Education Pr, January 14, 2014, cover price $60.00
Paperback:
9781612506340 | Harvard Education Pr, January 14, 2014, cover price $26.95
Hardcover:
9781612505220 | Rev exp edition (Harvard Education Pr, February 28, 2013), cover price $49.95
9781891792687 | Harvard Educational Pub Group, November 30, 2005, cover price $49.95
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9781612505213 | Rev exp edition (Harvard Education Pr, February 28, 2013), cover price $29.95
9781891792670 | Harvard Educational Pub Group, November 30, 2005, cover price $29.95
Product Description: As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of rising inequality affect the educational attainment and life chances of low-income children? In Whither Opportunity? a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education...read more
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9780871543721 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 30, 2011, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children.
Extreme climatic events present society with significant challenges in a rapidly warming world. Ordinary citizens, the insurance industry and governments are concerned about the apparent increase in the frequency of weather and climate events causing extreme, and in some instances, catastrophic, impacts. Climate Extremes and Society focuses on the recent and potential future consequences of weather and climate extremes for different socioeconomic sectors. The book also examines actions that may enable society to better respond to climate variability. It provides examples of the impact of climate and weather extremes on society. How have these extremes varied in the past, and how might they change in the future? What type of efforts will help society adapt to potential future changes in climate and weather extremes? The book is designed for all policy-makers, engineers and scientists who have an interest in the effects of climate extremes on society.
Hardcover:
9780521870283 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2008), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Extreme climatic events present society with significant challenges in a rapidly warming world.
Paperback:
9780521298483 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $59.99
About 27.5 million Americansânearly 24 percent of the labor forceâearn less than $8.70 an hour, not enough to keep a family of four out of poverty, even working full-time year-round. Job ladders for these workers have been dismantled, limiting their ability to get ahead in todayâs labor market. Low-Wage America is the most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make in response to economic globalization, industry deregulation, and advances in information technology affect the lives of tens of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution.Based on data from hundreds of establishments in twenty-five industriesâincluding manufacturing, telecommunications, hospitality, and health careâthe case studies document how firmsâ responses to economic restructuring often results in harsh working conditions, reduced benefits, and fewer opportunities for advancement. For instance, increased pressure for profits in newly consolidated hotel chains has led to cost-cutting strategies such as requiring maids to increase the number of rooms they clean by 50 percent. Technological changes in the organization of call centersâthe ultimate âdisposable workplaceââhave led to monitoring of operatorsâ work performance, and eroded job ladders. Other chapters show how the temporary staffing industry has provided paths to better work for some, but to dead end jobs for many others; how new technology has reorganized work in the back offices of banks, raising skill requirements for workers; and how increased competition from abroad has forced U.S. manufacturers to cut costs by reducing wages and speeding production.Although employersâ responses to economic pressures have had a generally negative effect on frontline workers, some employers manage to resist this trend and still compete successfully. The benefits to workers of multi-employer training consortia and the continuing relevance of unions offer important clues about what public policy can do to support the job prospects of this vast, but largely overlooked segment of the American workforce. Low-Wage America challenges us to a national self-examination about the nature of low-wage work in this country and asks whether we are willing to tolerate the profound social and economic consequences entailed by these jobs. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Case Studies of Job Quality in Advanced Economies
Hardcover:
9780871540256 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: About 27.
Paperback:
9780871540263 | Russell Sage Foundation, July 25, 2006, cover price $22.50
Hardcover:
9780691119724 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 12, 2004, cover price $50.00
Paperback:
9780691124025 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 29, 2005, cover price $30.95
Hardcover:
9780231123884 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $100.00
Two education and economics professors draw on the ideas of teachers, parents, and administrators around the nation to present a blueprint for educating children in the skills they will need to prosper in the twenty-first century. 15,000 first printing.
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9780684827391 | Free Pr, September 4, 1996, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Presents a blueprint for educating children in the skills they will need to prosper in the twenty-first century
Product Description: The policies that determine who teaches are a confusing, and often conflicting, array that includes tougher licensing requirements, higher salaries, mandatory master's degrees, merit pay, and alternative routes to certification. Who Will Teach? examines these policies and separates those that work from those that are destined to fail...read more
Hardcover:
9780674951921 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $61.50 | About this edition: The policies that determine who teaches are a confusing, and often conflicting, array that includes tougher licensing requirements, higher salaries, mandatory master's degrees, merit pay, and alternative routes to certification.
Product Description: This book presents a carefully developed monitoring system to track the progress of mathematics and science education, particularly the effects of ongoing efforts to improve students' scientific knowledge and mathematics competency...read more
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9780309037402 | Natl Academy Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This book presents a carefully developed monitoring system to track the progress of mathematics and science education, particularly the effects of ongoing efforts to improve students' scientific knowledge and mathematics competency.
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