{"id":845,"date":"2008-05-30T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2008\/05\/30\/two-new-books\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T23:48:07","slug":"two-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2008\/05\/two-new-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"080774901X.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2009\/02\/080774901x.gif\" width=\"116\" height=\"170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0807749001.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2009\/02\/0807749001.gif\" width=\"116\" height=\"170\"><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/publicresistance\/iWeb\/Doc%20G\/David%20Gabbard.html\">David Gabbard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/sandra.mathison\/SM\/home.html\">Sandra Mathison<\/a>, Kevin Vinson, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklyn.liu.edu\/education\/home\/faculty\/kesson_bio.html\">Kathleen Kesson<\/a> to edit a four volume set of books titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8295.aspx\">Defending Public Schools<\/a>. The books were published by Praeger (a division of Greenwood Publishing Group) and received some really outstanding reviews.<\/p>\n<p>I very pleased that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teacherscollegepress.com\/index.html\">Teachers College Press<\/a> has decided to publish two of the DPS books in paperback editions: <a href=\"http:\/\/store.tcpress.com\/0807749001.shtml\">Education Under the Security State<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.tcpress.com\/080774901X.shtml\">The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment<\/a>. Both books will be available in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Defending Public Schools set is still available from Greenwood in hardcover, with individual volumes also available as ebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I worked with David Gabbard, Sandra Mathison, Kevin Vinson, and Kathleen Kesson to edit a four volume set of books titled Defending Public Schools. The books were published by Praeger (a division of Greenwood Publishing Group) and received some really outstanding reviews. I very pleased that Teachers College Press has decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}