Supporting Diversity and Enhancing Democracy in Education
Many of the nation's most eminent education scholars and researchers describe constructive and effective ways to respond to and resist the attacks on diversity and multicultural education and to support democracy. In this timely volume, James A. Banks and a stellar group of contributors push back on the national and cogent attacks on diversity ......
Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom
An incisive examination of free speech's global decline and a framework for preserving expression in democratic societies. The Future of Free Speech confronts a stark truth: the right to speak freely is under siege. Once celebrated as a cornerstone of democratic societies, free expression is now met with growing suspicion and retaliation across ......
The Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections
Many Americans today are frustrated, unsettled, or just plain perplexed about the rules governing our democracy and who gets make them. Concern about rigged systems, confusion about the Electoral College, and uncertainty about who's in charge of it all have shaken our faith in elections as a reliable way to peacefully transfer political power in a ......
At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgent For decades, efforts to quantify the value of universities in dollars and cents led to the corporatization of institutions that are meant to serve their students and society by creating ......
Defining the value of universities has never been more urgent at a time when they are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits. For decades, efforts to quantify the value of universities in dollars and cents led to the corporatization of institutions that are meant to serve their students and society by creating ......
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In this classic work, noted political scientist Arlene W. Saxonhouse offers fresh and provocative explorations of ancient political theorists, lending new insights about democracy's foundations and ......
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In this classic work, noted political scientist Arlene W. Saxonhouse offers fresh and provocative explorations of ancient political theorists, lending new insights about democracy's foundations and ......
This text is a succinct yet poignant narrative about the development of the American political system and what is needed to maintain it. The book focuses on core aspects of America's history, fundamental beliefs, and institutions. Students explore the American Revolution, the structure and functions of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the ......
