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American Government Interactive eBook Student Version: Stories of a Nation Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Abernathy, Scott F. (Author)
ISBN: 1506371108     ISBN-13: 9781506371108
Publisher: CQ Press
OUR PRICE:   $55.10  
Product Type: Other
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | American Government - General
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 0.01" W x 10.6" (0.25 lbs)
 
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Politics involves people, from many backgrounds, struggling to make their voices heard. Real people, telling their stories, reflect our ideals, choices, and collective experiences as a nation. In American Government: Stories of a Nation, author Scott Abernathy tunes in to these voices, showing how our diverse ideas shape the way we participate and behave, the laws we live by, and the challenges we face. Each chapter features real stories illustrating how the American political system is the product of strategies, calculations, and miscalculations of countless individuals. The Interactive eBook* for American Government: Stories of a Nation includes access to a broad array of multimedia tools and resources!
  • VIDEO Relevant interviews, lectures, personal stories, inquiries, animated graphics, and other clips bring deeper learning and understanding as you explore key topics.
  • AUDIO Engaging podcasts and audio resources supplement and enrich key points within the text.
  • REFERENCE AND JOURNAL ARTICLES Access to articles from SAGE's influential journals, handbooks, and encyclopedias offer important background and exposure to seminal work in your field of study.
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Contributor Bio(s): Abernathy, Scott F.: -

Scott Abernathy was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. While an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he volunteered for three months with Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India.

After graduation, hoping to do service work closer to home, Scott worked as an on-street counselor with homeless adolescents in Boston, MA, with The Bridge, a non-profit multi-service youth agency.

Scott then received a Master of Curriculum and Instruction and taught fourth and seventh grades in Wisconsin public schools. Hoping to learn more about the underlying systems that drove the educational outcomes he was trying to change, Scott completed an M.P.A in domestic policy and then a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.

Scott is now an associate professor of Political Science and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is also the author of School Choice and the Future of American Democracy and No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools, both from University of Michigan Press.

While Scott says that being a "streetworker" was the most transforming job he has ever had, this textbook, and the chance to teach students--not in a subway stop, a squat, or a classroom, but through writing--is pretty cool as well.