Jennifer L Hochschild
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"Winner of the 1996 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Sociology and Anthropology, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2000 David Easton Award, American Political Science Association" Jennifer L. Hochschild is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Among her other works are The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation and What's Fair?: American Beliefs about Distributive...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Jennifer L. Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, professor of African and African American studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. Vesla M. Weaver is an assistant professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Traci R. Burch is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University and research...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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. . . Examines . . . desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, multicultural education, and ability grouping. These seem to be separate problems, but much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing: an apparent conflict . . . between policies designed to promote each student's ability to pursue success and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how polices...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Genomic science is moving out of the laboratory and into societal uses, ranging from gene therapy for terrible diseases, to evidence determining guilt or innocence in a courtroom, discovery of one's racial and ethnic ancestry, prenatal testing, and much more. Genomics promises great benefits. It also entails great risks, ranging from surveillance to a revival of eugenics, the threat of bioterrorism, and the distortions brought about by understanding...
