Education Empire

Education EmpireTraces the organizational history of Fairfax County public schools in Virginia, from 19542004, revealing the system's record of academic success. Despite the fact that more than one half of the students in the United States are educated in suburban schools, relatively little is known about the development of suburban school systems. Education Empire chronicles the evolution of Virginia's Fairfax County public schools, the twelfth largest school system

and various methods of their treatment

and culture to make the connections between these two giants of Western and Eastern thought

Pulitzer Prize–winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer

and the Outer Continental Shelf represents the greatest potential for oil and gas reserves remaining in the United States

state specific rate coefficients in heavy particle collisions and electron impact cross sections

while also developing an astonishingly original conception of freedom and personality that exerted an enormous (if subterranean) influence on the later course of European philosophy from Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard through Heidegger to important contemporary theorists like Slavoj Zðizûek

in dialogue with Aristotle

Laurent Cantet

Delivered at the Keio Gijuku University in Tokyo

What emerges is a picture of human nature that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates' own

and how the role and status of the university itself has been put into question: the very idea of a university has been open to contestation

Includes general chapters on clinician role