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Kia Mayes より Justification for Higher Education Motivational Poster Print, 36×24 Reviews へのコメント

Kia Mayes — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:21:34 +0000

Review by Kia Mayes for Justification for Higher Education Motivational Poster Print, 36x24 Rating: The quality of the poster was superb!!!! the color and graphics were just like the web image. The poster is meaningful because it allows for my son to visualize everyday, the poster is in his room, what he needs to do in school inorder to achieve the cars and the house... Thank you.

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匿名 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:00:57 +0000

Review by for Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs Rating: This is a great book to get information in making your teaching career insightful. Darling-Hammond does a great job in researching schools that are actually producing "teachers as they should be." The information in this book can be weighted amongst the other great education researchers.

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Simon Quattlebaum — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:20:36 +0000

Review by Simon Quattlebaum for Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs Rating: Darling=Hammond is the premier scholar in education especially on discussions of teachers in the classrooms. Powerful Teacher Education is a book for any teacher who needs a better understanding of the subtle differences in learning styles of urban students. Her work has been successfully utilized by colleges and universities of education throughout the U.S. Finally, as a doctoral student in education, my dissertaion is richer through the use of her references. A must read for all who are serious about edcation.

匿名より International and Language Education for a Global Future: Fifty Years of U.S. Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs へのコメント

匿名 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:48:17 +0000

A work of seminal scholarship, October 14, 2010

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This review is from: International and Language Education for a Global Future: Fifty Years of U.S. Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs (Hardcover)

In the Twenty-First Century we are living and working in a world of nation states that are more interdependently global than ever before in human history. "International and Language Education for a Global Future: Fifty Years of U.S. Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs" is the collaboratively compiled and edited work of David S. Wiley (Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University) and Robert S. Glew (Director of the Center for Advanced Study of International Development and an Associate Professor at Michigan State University). This 502-page compendium is comprised of an informed and informative introduction followed by 15 contributed articles whose focus is on the role and impact of Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs promoting national and global security; the impact of language studies and the teaching of minor languages; the significance of Title VI with respect to education legislation; as well as international issues relevant to Title VI programs including global competition, accessing, benchmarking and assessment. Of special note are the two contributions specific to the future of Title VI and Fulribht-Hays programs. Enhanced with five appendices, background information on the contributors, and a comprehensive index, "International and Language Education for a Global Future" is a work of seminal scholarship and a highly prized addition to governmental and academic reference library collections.

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Robert D. Steele — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:09:29 +0000

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The Original Surveyor of Distance Education and Virtual Learning, January 23, 2010

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This review is from: The Emerging Worldwide Electronic University: Information Age Global Higher Education (Praeger Studi) (Paperback)

My original review of this book seems to have vanished into thin air here at Amazon.

G. Parker Rossman and his book came into my life just after I started the international conference on "National Security & National Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions," and both the book and the World Brain discussion group that he co-founded were extremely influencial in my recognition that the ultimate outcome for a re-appreciation of open sources instead of secret sources was a global networked "world brain."

From my point of view, he was the first serious scholar to comprehensively begin documenting what could be learned online, and the first--at a time when fewer than 10% of those who could afford a computer were actually online--to really begin outlining the possibilities for both distance education and virtual learning.

It was as a direct result of his influence through this book that Gottfried Mayer-Kress spoke to the conference in 1997 on the topic of the World Brain, and that was when the entire modern Open Source Intelligence movement took a decisive turn away from helping the US Government get a grip on reality, and toward connecting and empowering all multinational sources of information for the good of all.

I have listed both this author and Gottfried Mayer-Kress in the line-up that runs from H. G. Wells through Vannavar Bush to today's proponents for Collective Intelligence, the World Brain, and a Global Game in which we all play ourselves and all of us have access to "true cost" information in all languages all the time.

Here are ten other books I recommend with this one, I have reviewed and summarized all of them:
Foundations of Distance Education (Routledge Studies in Distance Education)
Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Workforce
The exemplar: The exemplary performer in the age of productivity
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning!
Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age
The Knowledge Executive
Knowledge Without Boundaries: What America's Research Universities Can Do for the Economy, the Workplace, and the Community (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

For the other 1,500 reviews relevant to this book, in 98 categories that Amazon refuses to create for reviewers like myself to be more accessible, visit Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog. Education (General), Education (Universities), and multiple Intelligence (Collective, Commercial, Government, Public) are representative catagories.

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Midwest Book Review より Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia へのコメント

Midwest Book Review — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:22:52 +0000

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An exhaustively researched collection of essays, February 13, 2003

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This review is from: Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)

Compiled and edited by Ana M. Martinez Aleman (Assistant Professor of Education in the Higher Education Program at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College) and Kristen A. Renn (Assistant Professor in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Program at Michigan State University) , Women In Higher Education: An Encyclopedia is an impressive, 635-page social and historical survey women's colleges, female professors, demographic trends connected to race and gender in higher education, and much more. An exhaustively researched collection of essays by a wide variety of learned contributors, Women In Higher Education offers a solid baseline of information and facts from which to build a better future for women everywhere looking to pursue a degree. Organized into sections specifically addressing "Historical and Cultural Contexts"; "Gender Theory and the Academy"; "Feminism in the Academy"; "Women in Curriculum"; "Women and Higher Education Policy"; "Women Students"; "Women Faculty"; "Women Administrators"; and "Women Employees", Women In Higher Education is additionally enhanced with two appendices ("Women's Studies Research Resources" and "Colleges Identifying Themselves as Women's Colleges"); an extensive bibliography, and a comprehensive index. Women In Higher Education is an essential, seminal, indispensable contribution to both Education Studies and Women's Studies reference collections.

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J. Wellington より University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education へのコメント

J. Wellington — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:10:22 +0000

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I feel sick, July 18, 2005

J. Wellington (Phoenix, AZ USA) -

This review is from: University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education (Hardcover)

This has to be one of the saddest books I've read in a while. It's beautifully ironic. This book comes along and laments of the conflicts of interests with the marriage of universities and business while I am learning to embrace that I can love to have money.

I graduated from the University of Southern California and had a sense that something was amiss in the university system. Back then, I saw a university that catered strongly to the football program and felt like I was getting the scraps. The football program brought in the money and with the latest successes some immeasurable advertising.

However, there was an uneasy truce of advancing education and earning money. A university gets all excited about a new corporate sponsor giving millions to a department. But what if the corporate sponsor stipulates that the money be spent on research for the advancement of the sponsor's own products? Or that any breakthroughs from the research would be considered the assets of the sponsor's? And what happens when a professor mentoring graduate students is an owner of a private company?

In the former scenario, the research would have a STRONG affinity toward saying something positive about the sponsor's product. What department would say something bad about their sponsor even if research says so? There's statistics that would be some bias. In the second scenario, the spirit of research/education in a university environment is stymied and looks more like competing departments in a business or competing businesses. Instead of open sharing of ideas at the local coffeehouse, students are making fake notes to disguise their research from each other. In the final scenario, we may have a professor who only supports a thesis that supports his stock portfolio.

I recommend the book for anyone who is in the process of higher education or thinking of going in that direction. It could turn your head. There's a whole lot of research and data in this book that began to numb my brain. I give the book 4 stars because it was difficult to read - perhaps more because of the revelation of the corruption of higher education. It will make a lot of you sick.

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Donald "Don" — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:34:50 +0000

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University Inc: Where do we go from here?, March 25, 2005

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This review is from: University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education (Hardcover)

Over the last several decades Federal and State governments, despite promises to the contrary, have gradually withdrawn much, if not almost all, support from public and private colleges and universities. As a result, institutions of higher learning have had to turn increasingly to corporate and philanthropic 'gifts' and industry contracts in order to survive and attract students and faculty. Instead of giving primary focus to training, education, scholarship and research, our colleges and universities have had to market themselves as 'products worth purchasing by the consumer---the parents, students, donors and alumni and corporations. Both science and humanities faculty are now being encouraged to become entrepreneurs rather than merely educators and have to seek ways to profit directly from their intellectual and technical pursuits. "University Inc" is a highly informative, well-written, if sometimes anecdotal, investigative report about the most egregious cases of commodifying higher education and of corporate influence over university polices and educational practices. It is an easy-to-read book that has been written to aggravate and challenge the reader. Sometimes it gets a bit too personal, but its a lot better read than a collection of dry data supporting the contention that universities have gone overboard in permitting the business world to dictate academic and educational policies and programs of research. Washburn's book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the future of higher education.

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John Broesamle — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:31:20 +0000

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A Stunning Investigation of the Modern University, April 23, 2005

John Broesamle -

This review is from: University, Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education (Hardcover)

Jennifer Washburn has written the most important book about the impact of corporate culture on higher education since Thorstein Veblen's 1918 classic,The Higher Learning in America. Over the past quarter-century, Washburn shows, our leading universities have quietly allowed themselves to be transformed into "patent factories" generating income for the campuses and their corporate backers. The ability of faculty to produce basic knowledge has been compromised by the competitiveness, secrecy, and profit-seeking that characterize private sector (as opposed to traditional academic) research. Because they are less lucrative than the patent-generating disciplines, the social sciences and humanities have been downgraded. Emphasis on teaching, which is expensive and unrelated to patentable research, has diminished. Conflict of interest has run rampant. Washburn devoted the better part of a decade to research for this book, which is a model of investigative journalism. Indeed, I know of no more important study of the American university in print.
John Broesamle
Professor Emeritus of History
California State University, Northridge

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Miss_Prissy より A History of American Higher Education へのコメント

Miss_Prissy — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:48:54 +0000

Review by Miss_Prissy for A History of American Higher Education Rating: I can appreciate the work put into the book. I took the book for it's writing style to give me a how to guide and what not to do. The book is so dense that it could not cover everything. The author was left to decide what was important and the information that is important to him is not important to me. The book was a requirement for a course so we could get background information of higher ed and I can definitely appreciate it's purpose.

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