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Education
Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.
October 3, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Roche…
September 28, 2024
Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this …
September 25, 2024
Conducting Original Research for Your Library
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book hel…
September 24, 2024
Plato the Teacher
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, e…
September 23, 2024
In Silence or Indifference
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and s…
September 15, 2024
Teaching Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this discuss…
September 14, 2024
Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt
Ehaab D. Abdou's book Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt: Towards More Inclusive Curricular Representations and Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan,…
September 11, 2024
Polished
Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associate pr…
September 11, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part 1
Join us for an in-depth exploration of Professor Cass Sunstein's latest work, Campus Free Speech (Harvard University Press, September 2024). Togethe…
September 10, 2024
The Privateers
School vouchers are often framed as a way to help students and families by providing choice, but evidence shows that vouchers have a negative impact o…
September 6, 2024
English Language Ideologies in Korea
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho, Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie Uni…
September 5, 2024
Polarized by Degrees
Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes - from shifting relations between social groups and evolving langu…
September 1, 2024
Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum
In Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources (Routledge, 2024), Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache, and …
August 31, 2024
Discipline Problems
Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she’s troubled that her history classe…
August 28, 2024
Creating a Person-Centered Library
Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons (Bloomsbury, 2023) provides a comprehensive overview of various s…
August 27, 2024
Poor Queer Studies
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite edu…
August 25, 2024
'We Want Better Education!'
In 'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas (Texas A&M UP…
August 21, 2024
The Fruits of Opportunism
An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s sup…
August 20, 2024
Information Literacy and Social Media
Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristi…
August 17, 2024
With Grit and a Big Heart
What does it take to become a teacher today and how does one become a teacher? Theodore G. Zervas's book With Grit and a Big Heart: A Beginners Guide …