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Giving kids a fair chance
A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping …
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- 9781299443266
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- 1 online resource (137 pages).
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The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026235389X
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Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming
Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from "computational thinking" to computational participation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262319241
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The price of linguistic productivity :how children learn to break the rules o…
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages."All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and …
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- 9780262336376
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Words, thoughts, and theories
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274098
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages).
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Inventing the working parent :work, gender, and feminism in neoliberal Britain
"Charts how corporate and government handling of working parents in the 1980s and 1990s followed the development of neo-liberalism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375078
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Kids across the spectrums :growing up autistic in the digital age
"This book critiques and complicates the stereotypes of autistic youth by presenting the first in-depth ethnographic study of their everyday uses of media and technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374002
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Algorithmic rights and protections for children
"Essays that look at the challenges and risks in designing algorithms and platforms for children, with an emphasis on innovative designs and solutions for algorithmic justice, learning, and equity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374316
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Born to parse :how children select their languages
"This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "ope…
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Playful visions :optical toys and the emergence of children's media culture
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262358040
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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