EDUCATION from Chicago
Sunk Cost
Who’s to Blame for the Nation’s Broken Student Loan System and How to Fix It
Jillian Berman
Exposes the forgotten origins of the student loan system, how politicians have attempted to fix it, and the life-altering damage borrowers face.
2025 320 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82115-3 $27.50
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Yet Another Costume Party Debacle
Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses
Ingrid A. Nelson
How the policies of elite colleges allow racially themed parties to continue by perpetuating the status quo.
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 1 tables
3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83685-0 $22.50
Your Price: $15.75
Major Trade-Offs
The Surprising Truths about College Majors and Entry-Level Jobs
Corey Moss-Pech
An eye-opening look at the relationship between students’ majors and their entry-level jobs.
2025 224 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 9 tables
2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84022-2 $22.50
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Degrees of Risk
Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education
Blake R. Silver
An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education.
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 7 tables
4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83476-4 $27.50
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Networks of Trust
The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do about Them
Anthony Simon Laden
An eye-opening look at how parents’ mistrust of colleges has less to do with what their kids are learning than with whom they come to trust.
2024 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2
5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83719-2 $20.00
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Educated Out
How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them
Mara Casey Tieken
Through the stories of nine rural, first-generation students and their families, Educated Out shows how geography shapes college opportunities, from admission to post-graduation options.
2025 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84135-9 $20.00
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Polished
College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility
Melissa Osborne
An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students.
2024 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83304-0 $22.50
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Indebted Mobilities
Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University
Susan Thomas
An ethnographic rendering of overseas students’ fraught encounters studying at an American public university.
2024 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83070-4 $27.50
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Brothers in Grief
The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools
Nora Gross
A heartbreaking account of grief, Black boyhood, and how we can support young people as they navigate loss.
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 14 color plates, 4 tables
9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82087-3 $27.50
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Wasted Education
How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
John D. Skrentny
An urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82579-3 $30.00
Your Price: $21.00
You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner
The Troubled History of the Learning Style Idea
Thomas Fallace
A compelling history of the learning style concept and how it was shaped by shifting ideas in psychology, anthropology, and education.
2025 240 p. 6 x 9
10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84138-0 $27.50
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The Accidental Equalizer
How Luck Determines Pay after College
Jessi Streib
A startling discovery—that job market success after college is largely random— forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 3 tables
12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82931-9 $27.50
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Designed to Fail
Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve
Roseann Liu
A provocative examination of how systemic racism in education funding is sustained.
2024 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones, 2 tables
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83271-5 $22.50
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The Enduring Classroom
Teaching Then and Now
Larry Cuban
A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.
2023 144 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones
15 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82883-1 $25.00
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Structuring Inequality
How Schooling, Housing, and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education
Tracy L. Steffes
How inequality was forged, fought over, and forgotten through public policy in metropolitan Chicago.
2024 416 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 2 tables 14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83226-5 $32.50
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Making Politics Work
Practical Lessons on Politics for Would-Be Education Reformers
Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim
An expansive study shows how politics can work for, not just against, efforts to improve America’s schools.
2025 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 3 halftones, 10 tables
16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83796-3 $25.00
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The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression
Edited by Tony Banout and Tom Ginsburg
A collection of texts that provide the foundation for the University of Chicago’s longstanding tradition of free expression, principles that are at the center of current debates within higher education and society more broadly.
2024 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83780-2 $20.00
Your Price: $14.00
Verified
How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.
2023 240 p. 6 x 8 100 color plates
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82206-8 $14.00
Your Price: $9.80
Write Like You Teach
Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience
James M. Lang
This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing 2025 224 p. 6 x 9
18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83967-7 $20.00
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Cancel Wars
How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
Sigal R. Ben-Porath
An even-handed exploration of the polarized state of campus politics that suggests ways for schools and universities to encourage discourse across difference.
2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82380-5 $20.00
Your Price: $14.00
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