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• Academic achievement -- United States
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• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

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• No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools (c2000), by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building Community: Reforming Math and Science Education in Rural Schools (c2006), by Paul Boyer (PDF at Alaska)
• Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education (1999), by Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (page images with commentary at NAP)
• National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (HTML at ed.gov)
• No Excuses: Seven Principals of Low-Income Schools Who Set the Standard for High Achievement, by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• Raising the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students: An Idea Book, by United States Department of Education (HTML with commentary at ed.gov)

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Supportive School Environments for Children Traumatized by Family Violence (Boston: Massachusetts Advocates for Children, c2005), by Susan F. Cole, Jessica Greenwald O'Brien, M. Geron Gadd, Joel Ristuccia, D. Luray Wallace, and Michael Gregory (PDF files with commentary at massadvocates.org)

• A Big Apple for Educators: New York City's Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report (c2011), by Julie A. Marsh, Matthew G. Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Kun Yuan, Scott Epstein, Julia Koppich, Nidhi Kalra, Catherine Dimartino, and Art Peng (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm our Children (c2006), ed. by Eric A. Hanushek (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1986), ed. by Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell, and Cedric D. J. Pugh (PDF in Australia)

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• The Many Faces of Human Security: Case Studies of Seven Countries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Keith Muloongo, Roger Kibasomba, and Jemima Njeri Kariri (PDF at issafrica.org)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (searchable page images ast Pitt)

• Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports With Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management, by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm (HTML at UNU Press)

• Alternative Agriculture (1989), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (multiple formats at NAP)

• African Agriculture: The Critical Choices (c1990), ed. by Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (HTML at UNU Press)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Lost Territories of the Republic (Les Territoires Perdus de la Republique) (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Emmanuel Brenner, trans. by Robert Chodos and Susan Joanis, contrib. by Martine Trink Rubinstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Roberta Gilchrist (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Modernity and Housing (originally published 1993; open access edition with new preface, ca. 2018), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files at MIT)

• Development Projects in the Sudan: An Analysis of Their Reports With Implications for Research and Training in Arid Land Management, by Heinz-Ulrich Thimm (HTML at UNU Press)

• A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners (second edition; Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2020), ed. by Gary James Schmitt (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Michele R. Derrick, Dusan Stulik, and James M. Landry (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Paul C. Avey (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Scott W. Murray (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Auctions: Theory and Practice (prepublication version, 2003), by Paul Klemperer (PDF files in the UK)

• Churches That Abuse (c1992), by Ronald M. Enroth (HTML at apologeticsindex.org)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph Michael Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Autistic Children: A Working Diary (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1986), by Florence Milnes Kozak (page images with commentary at Pitt)

• Classrooms That Work: Teaching Generic Skills in Academic and Vocational Settings, by Cathleen Stasz, K. Ramsey, R. Eden, J. DaVanzo, H. Farris, and M. W. Lewis (PDF files at rand.org)

• A Chinese Beggars' Den: Poverty and Mobility in an Underclass Community (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1988), by David C. Schak (page images at Pitt)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Spatial Analysis for Regional Development: A Case Study in the Bicol River Basin of the Philippines, by Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU Press)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (New Haven and London: Routledge, c1988), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)

• Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018), ed. by R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn
  • PDF and Epub at hawaiiopen.org
  • HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018), ed. by R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn
  • PDF and Epub at hawaiiopen.org
  • HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• The Many Faces of Human Security: Case Studies of Seven Countries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Keith Muloongo, Roger Kibasomba, and Jemima Njeri Kariri (PDF at issafrica.org)

• Venezuela: The Silent Cry: Gross Human Rights Violations Against Children (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Implementing Schoolwide Projects: An Idea Book, by Ellen M. Pechman and Leila Fiester (HTML at ed.gov)

• Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard O. Davies (PDF at Ohio State)

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