By the People by James W Fraser

By the People by James W Fraser

Luca and George have been friends their whole lives. Luca loves school, especially social studies. And George does not. Luca's always trying to encourage George to love learning as much as he does. Will the new topic on the electoral college prove too much of a challenge for Luca? Can Luca help George understand what the presidential election process is really like? Let's find out as we discover the meaning of the electoral college together through the eyes of a child. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we can turn a seemingly uninteresting and complicated concept like the electoral college into something simple and easy for kids to understand? Next election be ready for your child to teach you a few things as you watch the results come in See their interest in government and politics grow with their understanding in this fun and witty exchange between Luca and George as they learn about the electoral college.

James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. His teaching includes a survey course in U.S. History for future Social Studies teachers and courses in the History of American Education, Religion & Public Education, and Inquiries into Teaching and Learning. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Fraser is the President of the History of Education Society and a former member of the Editorial Board of the History of Education Quarterly. He served as Senior Vice President for Programs at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, from 2008 to 2012. He has also served as NYU liaison to the New Design High School, a public high school in New York's Lower East Side, and to Facing History and Ourselves.

Before coming to New York University, Dr. Fraser taught in the Department of History and the program in education at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was the founding dean of Northeastern's School of Education. He was also a member and chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Education Deans Council, the Boston School Committee Nominating Committee, and other boards. He was a lecturer in the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at the Harvard University Divinity School from 1997 to 2004. He has taught at Lesley University; University of Massachusetts, Boston; Boston University; and Public School 76 Manhattan. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was pastor of Grace Church in East Boston, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2006.

In addition to By the People, Dr. Fraser is the author or editor of twelve books including T he School in the United States: A Documentary History, a third edition of which will be published in 2014, Preparing America's Teachers: A History (2007), and A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future (2002). He lives in New York City with his wife Katherine Hanson and their dog, Pebble.

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ISBN 13	9780131366183
ISBN 10	0131366181
Title	By the People
Author	James W Fraser
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pearson Education
Year published	2015-08-01
Number of pages	955
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