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8 New Education Costs Books Redefining 2025 Bookauthority

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8 new education costs books redefining 2025 bookauthority

A wide-ranging array of topics was examined in this year’s best higher education books, including student guides, research exposes, leadership advice, and scholarship on tenure and academic freedom. Here’s a look at ten of the best titles for 2025. In Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn’t Matter — and What Really Does,” Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson discuss how students can create or “hack” successful journeys through college rather than getting lost... College presents ample opportunities for hacking if students learn to take advantage of the many “blank spaces” in the curriculum and if they engage with a personally fulfilling “field of study,” rather than becoming... Along that path, they may become motivated to work on one of society’s “wicked problems;” those complicated, and perhaps unsolvable, challenges best addressed by broad educational experiences. Intended as a “manifesto of educational populism,” Hacking College addresses both higher ed insiders and inquisitive students prepared to hear its message that how you do college is more important than where you do...

What Can I Get Out Of This? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics, by Boston College English Professor Carlo Rotella takes a sophisticated look at the lives, changes, and lessons learned by 33 students enrolled in his required... Based on interviews of those students about 18 months after the course, Rotella explores what happened in a classroom devoted to “the business of figuring out how meaning flows through text, lives, the world.” Today, Reason Foundation published our 2025 K-12 Education Spending Spotlight, which brings together over two decades of school finance data for all 50 states. With nationwide funding approaching $1 trillion and outcomes declining—nearly 40% of 4th graders aren’t reading at a basic level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress— it’s critical to examine how dollars are spent... Reason Foundation’s interactive tool, which includes data on expenditures, staffing, teacher salaries, debt, and student outcomes, can help answer those questions and is available here.

There are five key trends to know, but here’s the big takeaway: despite record funding, K-12 finance faces structural problems that undermine student achievement. Between 2002 and 2023, public school funding rose by 35.8% from $14,969 per student to $20,322 per student after adjusting for inflation. New York now spends $36,976 per student followed by New Jersey at $30,267 per student, and funding now exceeds $25,000 per student in eight states, including: Vermont ($29,169 per student), Connecticut ($28,975), Pennsylvania ($26,242),... Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest increase in per-student spending has occurred in California, rising 31.5% from $19,724 in 2020 to $25,941 in 2023. #BlackEducators MatterBy Darrius StanleyHEP, February 2024This collection of personal accounts, educator portraits, and research findings assembled by Darrius Stanley, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, spotlights the critical work of Black K–12... The collection lays out historical and contemporary issues faced by Black educators and the efforts they have made to fight oppression and racism as they continue to have a positive impact on students, schools,...

The essays also offer strategies that education leaders can use to recruit, retain, and support Black educators in K–12 schools. Core Practices in Teacher EducationBy Pam Grossman and Urban FraefelHEP, March 2024 In this new book, Pam Grossman, a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and Urban Fraefel,... With teachers facing many common challenges, this book offers an international perspective on the work related to practice-based teacher education and core ways of educating students. Transformative Science TeachingBy Daniel Morales-DoyleHEP, April 2024For more than a decade, author Daniel Morales-Doyle taught high school science in the Chicago Public Schools. Now an associate professor of science education at the University of Illinois Chicago, Morales-Doyle tackles in this new book what science education is and could be. Challenging middle and high school science teachers to think differently about instructional priorities, Morales-Doyle offers lesson plans and suggests more emphasis on topics relevant to students’ lives, such as racial and environmental justice, which...

System WiseBy Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Ed.M.’09, Ed.L.D.’20; Carmen Williams, Ed.L.D.’22; David Rease Jr., Ed.L.D.’14; and Senior Lecturer Kathryn Parker BoudettHEP, April 2024Following up on Data Wise, the popular step-by-step guide published in 2005 that showed... Using real-world stories, planning checklists, and implementation templates, the authors show how district leaders and school systems can benefit from the improved use of data rooted in what they call the ACE habits of... School Communities of StrengthBy Peter Cookson Jr., C.A.S.’91HEP, April 2024In his latest book, Peter Cookson, the author of more than 15 books focused on inequality and education, and a senior research fellow at the... Geared toward K–12 schools, the strategies include whole-child teaching and learning, asset-based approaches, and creating a relationship-centered school culture. To help schools improve their “poverty responsiveness,” he says, will require adequate funding and meaningful collaboration among families, neighborhood partners, and educators.

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