Education

Education

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Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

July 16, 2026

Heart-Centered Connections

Niki Elliott

Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive is a transformative guide for working wi…

Stephen G. Covell, "The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

July 12, 2026

The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

Stephen G. Covell

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions …

Becoming the System

July 8, 2026

Becoming the System

Nelson Flores

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick sits down with Dr. Nelson Flores to discuss his 2024 book entitled Becoming the Syste…

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

July 3, 2026

Max Weinreich and the Meaning of Yiddish

Naomi Seidman, Kenneth Moss, and Jeffrey Shandler
Hosted by YIVO Institute

Max Weinreich spent the entirety of his adult life building YIVO and the field of Yiddish Studies. A 'convert' to the cause of Yiddishism in his adole…

Bryan Alexander, "Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

June 28, 2026

Peak Higher Ed

Bryan Alexander
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

Over the past decade, American colleges and universities have seen enrollment decline, campuses close, programs cut, faculty and staff laid off, and p…

Ranita Ray, "Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

June 28, 2026

Slow Violence

Ranita Ray
Hosted by Edward Carter

A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools in…

Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

June 27, 2026

Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia

Andy Byford
Hosted by Polina Popova

Between the 1880s and the 1930s, children became the focus of unprecedented scientific and professional interest in modernizing societies worldwide, i…

The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest

June 25, 2026

The Honesty Crisis

Christian B. Miller

Research shows that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and unders…

Rebecca Kosick, "Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press" (Wayne State UP, 2026)

June 22, 2026

Detroit's Alternative Press

Rebecca Kosick
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Can publishing change the world? In Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press Rebecca Kosick (Wayne State UP, 2026), an Associate Profes…

Jackie M. Blount, "Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

June 21, 2026

Straighten Up, Girls and Boys

Jackie M. Blount
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender (Harvard Education Press, 2026), acclaimed historian and educator Jacki…

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)

June 21, 2026

Jim

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the firs…

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #2

June 21, 2026

Audio and Ideas, Panel #2

Chenjerai Kumanyika, Vinson Cunningham, and Julia Barton

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…

Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin, "Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy: Promoting Multilingualism in Elementary and Middle Schools" (Georgetown UP, 2026)

June 20, 2026

Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy

Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin
Hosted by Laura Kelly

A roadmap for enhancing students' equitable access to biliteracy development Monolingual ideologies have driven US educational policy for centuries. D…

Inside the Mississippi Marathon: How Mississippi Dramatically Improved Its Education System with Rachel Canter

June 19, 2026

Inside the Mississippi Marathon

Rachel Canter
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In 2008, Rachel Canter founded Mississippi First, an education non-profit with the mission of improving educational outcomes for students across the s…

Audio and Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting, Panel #1

June 17, 2026

Audio and Ideas, Panel #1

Benjamen Walker, Mara Mills, and Fanny Gribenski

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

June 12, 2026

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World

Kristen Abbott Bennett
Hosted by John Yargo

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How doe…

Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)

June 10, 2026

Growing People

Natalia Rogach Alexander

John Dewey is among history’s most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a …

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)

June 8, 2026

From the Margins

Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds.
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri

In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant A…

Robert Grant, "Understanding Sensory Differences: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens" (2022)

June 7, 2026

Understanding Sensory Differences

Robert Grant
Hosted by Helena Vissing

Children and teens who experience sensory differences often find it difficult to understand their sensory system and sensory/regulation needs they may…

Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids

Mary R. Lanni
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

In this illuminating conversation with librarian-author Mary R. Lanni, we celebrate her brand new book, Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their …