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Precipice or Crossroads?: Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century
by Daniel Mark Fogel Elizabeth Malson-HuddlePresident Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-grant Act in 1862, launching a nationwide project in public higher education that would build democracy, prosperity, and competitiveness to levels undreamed of 150 years ago. As student costs skyrocket, driven by steep drops in public funding, the viability of that project, like the nation itself, is under threat. In Precipice or Crossroads? top experts in higher education address a broad range of issues central to the question of whether the quality of these institutions—and of American life and democracy—can be sustained.
Precise Poverty Alleviation and Intergenerational Mobility in China (China Perspectives)
by Chunjin ChenThe widening of income and wealth inequality has become one of the most important obstacles on the road to China’s common prosperity. In the context of inequality reduction and anti-poverty strategy in China, this book investigates the complex relationship between education and intergenerational mobility in terms of occupation and income. Based on large-scale social survey data, cutting-edge econometric models and statistical methods, the book examines the role of education in breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty and promoting intergenerational mobility. It analyzes the characteristics of birth cohorts in intergenerational mobility, the long-term trends of educational, occupational, and income mobility among rural and urban residents across generations, and also the different regional patterns of intergenerational mobility against the background of social changes in China. Based on empirical findings, the author advances suggestions on an education policy conducive to poverty alleviation. The book will appeal to scholars and students studying the sociology of education, the economics of education and Chinese education, as well as policy makers interested in the topics of education policy systems and poverty alleviation, as well as education equity and social mobility.
Preclinical Anatomy Review 2023: For USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1 (USMLE Prep)
by Kaplan MedicalThe only official Kaplan Preclinical Anatomy Review 2023 covers the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam and match into the residency of your choice. Up-to-date: Updated annually by Kaplan&’s all-star facultyIntegrated: Packed with clinical correlations and bridges between disciplinesLearner-efficient: Organized in outline format with high-yield summary boxesTrusted: Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on USMLE Step 1Looking for more prep? Our Preclinical Medicine Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2023 has this book, plus the rest of the 7-book series.
Preclinical Behavioral Science and Social Sciences Review 2023: For USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1 (USMLE Prep)
by Kaplan MedicalThe only official Kaplan Preclinical Behavioral Science and Social Sciences Review 2023 covers the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam and match into the residency of your choice. Up-to-date: Updated annually by Kaplan&’s all-star faculty. This edition includes a section on Patient Safety Science, a topic that was recently added to the exam.Integrated: Packed with clinical correlations and bridges between disciplinesLearner-efficient: Organized in outline format with high-yield summary boxesTrusted: Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on USMLE Step 1Looking for more prep? Our Preclinical Medicine Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2023 has this book, plus the rest of the 7-book series.
Preclinical Biochemistry and Medical Genetics Review 2023: For USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1 (USMLE Prep)
by Kaplan MedicalThe only official Kaplan Preclinical Biochemistry and Medical Genetics 2023 covers the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam and match into the residency of your choice. Up-to-date: Updated annually by Kaplan&’s all-star facultyIntegrated: Packed with clinical correlations and bridges between disciplinesLearner-efficient: Organized in outline format with high-yield summary boxesTrusted: Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on USMLE Step 1Looking for more prep? Our Preclinical Medicine Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2023 has this book, plus the rest of the 7-book series.
Preclinical Immunology and Microbiology Review 2023: For USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1 (USMLE Prep)
by Kaplan MedicalThe only official Kaplan Preclinical Immunology and Microbiology 2023 covers the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam and match into the residency of your choice. Up-to-date: Updated annually by Kaplan&’s all-star facultyIntegrated: Packed with clinical correlations and bridges between disciplinesLearner-efficient: Organized in outline format with high-yield summary boxesTrusted: Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on USMLE Step 1Looking for more prep? Our Preclinical Medicine Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2023 has this book, plus the rest of the 7-book series.
Preclinical Pathology Review 2023: For USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1 (USMLE Prep)
by Kaplan MedicalThe only official Kaplan Preclinical Pathology Review 2023 covers the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam and match into the residency of your choice. Up-to-date: Updated annually by Kaplan&’s all-star facultyIntegrated: Packed with clinical correlations and bridges between disciplinesLearner-efficient: Organized in outline format with high-yield summary boxesTrusted: Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on USMLE Step 1Looking for more prep? Our Preclinical Medicine Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2023 has this book, plus the rest of the 7-book series.
Preclinical Physiology Review 2023: For USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX-USA Level 1 (USMLE Prep)
by Kaplan MedicalThe only official Kaplan Preclinical Physiology Review 2023 covers the comprehensive information you need to ace the exam and match into the residency of your choice. Up-to-date: Updated annually by Kaplan&’s all-star facultyIntegrated: Packed with clinical correlations and bridges between disciplinesLearner-efficient: Organized in outline format with high-yield summary boxesTrusted: Used by thousands of students each year to succeed on USMLE Step 1Looking for more prep? Our Preclinical Medicine Complete 7-Book Subject Review 2023 has this book, plus the rest of the 7-book series.
Precursor Models for Teaching and Learning Science During Early Childhood (Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education #55)
by Jean-Marie Boilevin Alice Delserieys Konstantinos RavanisThis edited volume provides an in-depth exploration of a theoretical framework supporting Early Childhood Science Education research and teaching best practices. Particularly by presenting the concept of the Precursor Model from an epistemological, psychological, and didactical point of view at Early Childhood Science Education. The book examines and discusses the nature of Precursor Models and their use for early science teaching and learning. It scrutinizes different aspects of the construction of such models applied in early childhood education settings and contexts. Several empirical studies are presented within diverse scientific domains, as well as in international educational contexts. By providing a vary of examples of precursor models it makes this book a great companion for teachers aiming to teach children to understand and reason about topics such as: floating and sinking; shadow formation; water state changes; air; clouds and rain; electricity; inheritance and selection; as well as variation within populations. Finally, this volume supports the development of science education from an early age by using the original framework of a precursor model to mediate teaching and learning science at school during early childhood.
Predator Face-Off (Readers)
by Melissa StewartFind out what happens when predator is pitted against predator in this exciting, informative reader. The Level 1 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information about some of the world's most amazing creatures for beginning readers.
Predatory Practices in Scholarly Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship (Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism)
by Pejman Habibie Ismaeil FazelThis volume offers comprehensive examination of “predatory” practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences. Chapters engage multiple methodologies, including corpus, discourse, and genre analysis, as well as historical and autoethnographic approaches to offer in-depth, empirical analyses of the causes, practices, and implications of predatory practices for scholars. Contributors span a broad range of disciplines and geolocations, presenting a diverse range of perspectives. The volume also outlines effective initiatives for the identification of predatory practices and considers steps to increase understanding of viable publishing options. Providing a needed exploration of predatory research practices, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in higher education, publishing, and communication ethics.
Predatory Practices in Scholarly Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship (Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism)
by Pejman Habibie Ismaeil FazelThis volume offers comprehensive examination of “predatory” practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences.Chapters engage multiple methodologies, including corpus, discourse, and genre analysis, as well as historical and autoethnographic approaches to offer in-depth, empirical analyses of the causes, practices, and implications of predatory practices for scholars. Contributors span a broad range of disciplines and geolocations, presenting a diverse range of perspectives. The volume also outlines effective initiatives for the identification of predatory practices and considers steps to increase understanding of viable publishing options.Providing a needed exploration of predatory research practices, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in higher education, publishing, and communication ethics.
Predicaments of Knowledge: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities
by Suren PillayPredicaments of Knowledge explores the difficult questions South African universities face after apartheid: Is there a difference between Africanising a university and decolonising a university? What about differences between deracialising and decolonising the curricula taught at universities across disciplines? Through a range of reflections on race, language, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial knowledge projects from Africa and Latin America, this book explores the pitfalls and possibilities that face a post-apartheid generation inventing the future of knowledge. The distinctions between Africanisation, decolonisation and deracialisation are often conflated in the political demands put to universities. Suren Pillay emphasises all three as important but distinct imperatives. If an intervention is undertaken with the aim of decolonising the university while actually addressing deracialisation, it can undermine the effort to decolonise. Similarly, if an initiative to Africanise the university does not address decolonisation, both processes can be undermined. Drawing on more than two and a half decades of the author’s participation in these debates, these essays aim to intervene in and elucidate questions and predicaments, rather than offering blue prints; they are dialogical in spirit even when polemical in tone. In conversation with existing continental African and Latin American experiences, they offer incisive reflections on current South African debates.
Predictable Profits: Transform Your Business from One-Off Sales to Recurring Revenue with Membershipsand Subscriptions
by Stu McLarenLaunch, grow, and scale your membership businessWhat if you could stop chasing one-off sales and build a business that pays you consistently, month after month?In Predictable Profits, membership expert Stu McLaren pulls back the curtain on how to create a thriving membership business that doesn&’t just bring in revenue—but does so predictably, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.Drawing on nearly two decades of membership experience, Stu shares:Three telltale signs that you have a perfect market for a membership site How to effortlessly attract new members—even if you don&’t like to &“sell&”Why closing your doors will lead to faster and more explosive growth in your membershipA simple blueprint for creating irresistible content that keeps your members coming back for moreWhat to do in the first 30 days to triple the lifetime value of your membersPredictable Profits is packed with real-life success stories, actionable insights, and all the inspiration you need to build a membership site that does more than just generate revenue—it creates financial stability, positive impact, and ultimate freedom.Turn what you already know, love, and do into a thriving online business. This remarkable book will show you how.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan ArielyWe all think we make smart, rational choices, right? Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes, we make the same types of mistakes. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable, making us predictably irrational. Ariely explains how to break through these patterns of thought to make better decisions.
Predicting Jesus: A 6-Week Study of the Messianic Prophecies of Isaiah
by Kim EricksonPredicting Jesus is a six-week women&’s Bible study from author and Bible teacher Kim Erickson on the book of Isaiah. It is a verse-by-verse study of Isaiah&’s prophecies about Jesus and their fulfillment in the New Testament. It also includes contemporary application, weekly homework, reflection and prayer, and discussion questions for possible weekly small group interaction. Teaching on Isaiah is deeply personal to Kim as reading through it was transformative in the aftermath of her young son&’s death: &“Reading so many words that actually came true, some hundreds of years later, confirmed the character of God for me. Deep in my heart, I finally let go. I let go of the world&’s effort to shame me into thinking it was all a sham. I let go of human logic. I let go of the paralysis of analysis. The focus of this study—Isaiah&’s prophecies regarding Christ—reveal so much about God: His power, His nature, His plans. We can trust Him to do what He says He is going to do. I pray women use this book to challenge their current mindsets, check their understanding, and push forward in their faith in Jesus and the Bible.&”
Predicting Jesus: A 6-Week Study of the Messianic Prophecies of Isaiah
by Kim EricksonPredicting Jesus is a six-week women&’s Bible study from author and Bible teacher Kim Erickson on the book of Isaiah. It is a verse-by-verse study of Isaiah&’s prophecies about Jesus and their fulfillment in the New Testament. It also includes contemporary application, weekly homework, reflection and prayer, and discussion questions for possible weekly small group interaction. Teaching on Isaiah is deeply personal to Kim as reading through it was transformative in the aftermath of her young son&’s death: &“Reading so many words that actually came true, some hundreds of years later, confirmed the character of God for me. Deep in my heart, I finally let go. I let go of the world&’s effort to shame me into thinking it was all a sham. I let go of human logic. I let go of the paralysis of analysis. The focus of this study—Isaiah&’s prophecies regarding Christ—reveal so much about God: His power, His nature, His plans. We can trust Him to do what He says He is going to do. I pray women use this book to challenge their current mindsets, check their understanding, and push forward in their faith in Jesus and the Bible.&”
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by Joshua Gans Avi Goldfarb Ajay AgrawalArtificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible, magically bringing machines to life--driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In the face of such uncertainty, many analysts either cower in fear or predict an impossibly sunny future. But in this book, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Preeti the Prom Fairy (Rainbow Magic #82)
by Daisy MeadowsPreeti the Prom Fairy makes sure that every prom goes to plan, but when Jack Frost and his naughty goblins steal her magical objects, school celebrations everywhere start to go wrong. Can Rachel, Kirsty, Gracie and Khadijah help Preeti save the night from disaster?The girls must find Preeti's everlasting corsage, funky hairclip and magical camera so that everyone's school proms can be saved and schoolchildren can dance the night away with their friends!'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.comIf you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' new series, Pixie Magic!
Preface to the philosophy of education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 24)
by John WilsonIt is sometimes said that the philosophy of education is not a serious and coherent philosophical area of inquiry. John Wilson examines this argument, taking it as the starting point for his book. He believes that most 'philosophy of education' until now has been little more than the promotion of particular ideologies, and that progress can be made only by a more analytical approach. The central problems lies in establishing a few basic concepts, principles and categories and questions which will form the skeleton of the subject. He therefore outlines the nature of 'philosophy of education' and defines some of its major problems by examining key notions such as the value of education, the nature and implications of learning and what should be learned.
Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities (Education and Society in China)
by Naomi C.F. YamadaPreferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities explores the cultural logic of China’s preferential policy measures. Similar in premise but different in practice and philosophy to American affirmative action, the preferential policies evoke controversy on all sides: from those who see the measures as insufficient to address problems of educational disparities between ethnic groups, and from those who see the measures as "reverse discrimination." Yamada shows how the policy measures attempt to manage ethnic-based contradictions and appease both majority and minority populations.
Prefiguring the Idea of the University for a Post-Capitalist Society (Marxism and Education)
by Gary SaundersUsing an Open Marxist theoretical framework, this book provides a critique of the neoliberal reforms made to higher education since the late 1970s and the impact this has had on the sector. Rather than arguing for a return to the idea of the public university, the book argues that public and private models of higher education are both forms of capitalist accumulation and have historically perpetuated forms of oppression, exploitation and discrimination; thus, a more radical solution that addresses both the current crisis of higher education and the contradictory and exploitative nature of late capitalism is required. This book critically examines the autonomous learning spaces that emerged out of the UK student protests (2009-2010) and documents what can be learned from them to prefigure the idea of the university for a post-capitalist society.
Prefixes and Suffixes: Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
by Trisha CallellaThe national standards require that students beginning at fourth grade use their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words. Each of the 30 units in this resource includes a word list, vocabulary sort cards, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. Students will learn over 300 vocabulary words and become more comfortable dissecting words and defining their parts.
Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens
by Wendy LuttrellFocusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
Pregunta: Las Preguntas Para Fortalecer Tu Vida
by Michael Jenet Traductor Público Mariano Saab¿POR QUÉ? ¿Por qué algunas personas viven una vida más feliz, exitosa y complaciente mientras que otros están tristes, sufriendo y solos? «PREGUNTA» te dará la respuesta. Como dice Jenet: «La vida hay que vivirla, no padecerla». En un estilo de fácil lectura, humorístico y coloquial, lleno de explicaciones lógicas, pasos simples y ejemplos de la vida real, Michael Jenet te demuestra cómo puedes aprovechar más tu vida inmediatamente, sin importar dónde te encuentres en este momento. La respuesta al porqué yace en las preguntas que se hace nuestra mente cada día. Aprender a tomar el control de estas preguntas, a mejorar nuestro CI (Cuestionario Intencional) es el secreto de aquellos que viven una vida más feliz y gratificante que aquellos que apenas si logran sobrevivir. Podrás encontrar una caja de herramientas que te orientará para mejorar tu carrera, tus relaciones, tu salud, tu espiritualidad, tu aprecio, tu felicidad y tu vida. No importa en qué etapa de tu vida te encuentres, si quieres aprovechar más cada día, experimentar más alegría, más éxito, más felicidad, más vínculos y vivir la vida en lugar de padecerla, este libro te enseñará cómo hacerlo.