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Higher Education May 30, 2023

Unequal Choices

How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College

Yang Va Lor

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their socioeconomically advantaged peers with similar academic qualifications. A key reason for …

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Interviews with scholars of education about their new books.

Madison's Notes May 30, 2023

Educating for Solitude

A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
What kind of person is our education system designed to create? Best-selling author and award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz discusses the failures of our higher education system, how it mis-conditions our …
Darts & Letters May 29, 2023

Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire

The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire

Hosted by Ren Bangert
Paulo Freire offers activists and academics everywhere a lesson in what it means to be a radical intellectual. He is known as the founder of critical pedagogy, which asks teachers …
Madison's Notes May 29, 2023

Assessing Affirmative Action

A Conversation with Jason Riley

Jason Riley

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
With the Supreme Court poised to potentially outlaw race-conscious admissions, Affirmative Action may soon be on the chopping block. What will be the legacy of this half-century-old policy? Jason Riley …
Media May 28, 2023

Say the Right Thing

How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace …
Academic Life May 25, 2023

Navigating the Community College Job Market

A Discussion with Rob Jenkins

Rob Jenkins

Hosted by Christina Gessler
What makes a community college job interview different than one at a four-year college or a university? Do you need a PhD to get hired? What are they looking for …
Education May 24, 2023

Teachers as Policy Advocates

Strategies for Collaboration and Change

May Hara and Annalee G. Good

Hosted by Alex Tabor
May Hara and Annalee G. Good's Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change (Teachers College Press, 2023) argues that teachers’ active participation in policy advocacy is crucial to …
Madison's Notes May 23, 2023

Money or Meaning?

A Discussion on Choice, Restlessness, and Higher Education with Ben and Jenna Storey

Ben Storey and Jenna Storey

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
What kinds of tools do we need to make big decisions, and why aren't our universities training us to make them? Are universities doing students a disservice by occupying them …
Madison's Notes May 22, 2023

Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness

A Conversation with Beth Akers

Beth Akers

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
With the Biden Administration's student loan relief coming down the pike, Annika sits down with Dr. Beth Akers, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who specializes in higher …
Religion May 14, 2023

The Politics of Religious Literacy

Education and Emotion in a Secular Age

Justine Ellis

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. In The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age (Brill, 2022), Justine …
SSEAC Stories May 13, 2023

Locating Human Dignity in Cambodia

Prospects for Human Rights Education

Rachel Killean

Hosted by Natali Pearson
The concept of human dignity is a foundational one within human rights discourses, and is commonly used in the context of human rights and sustainable development policies and programs. But …
Game Studies May 11, 2023

We the Gamers

How Games Teach Ethics and Civics

Karen Schrier

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst
Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and movements like #PlayApartTogether, games have become increasingly …
Higher Education May 10, 2023

Relationship-Rich Education

How Human Connections Drive Success in College

Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert

Hosted by David Finegold
During Leo Lambert’s 19-year tenure as president at Elon University, the institution moved from a regional college to becoming one of the U.S.’s top 100 national universities. It is consistently …
Education May 9, 2023

Districts That Succeed

Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement

Karin Chenoweth

Hosted by Laura Kelly
In Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement (Harvard Education Press, 2021), long-time education writer Karin Chenoweth turns her attention from effective schools to effective districts …
Environmental Studies May 9, 2023

Universities on Fire

Higher Education in the Climate Crisis

Bryan Alexander

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), futurist Bryan Alexander explores higher education during an age of unfolding climate crisis. Powered by real-world …
Madison's Notes May 6, 2023

The Politicization of Science

A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout

Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
How are hiring and admissions decisions made in the hard sciences if not by merit? What are the risks of allowing science to be politicized? Professors Dorian Abbot (University of …
Academic Life May 4, 2023

Do You Have Imposter Syndrome?

A Discussion with Darragh McCashin

Darragh McCashin

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Why do so many students and academics worry that they are imposters? Is it normal to experience this kind of self-doubt? This episode explores: The difference between imposter syndrome and …
Madison's Notes May 4, 2023

The Capitulation of MIT

A Conversation with Dorian Abbot

Dorian Abbot

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
Dorian Abbot is an Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invited Abbot to deliver their prestigious Carlson Lecture, but …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness May 4, 2023

Parenting and Mindfulness

A Discussion with Nadia Davis

Nadia Davis

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
This episode is a recording of a conversation with author, Nadia Davis, about parenting and mindfulness. Last month I had the pleasure of talking with Nadia about her new book  …
Law May 2, 2023

What Is Legal Education For?

Reassessing the Purposes of Early Twenty-First Century Learning and Law Schools

Rachel Dunn, Paul Maharg, and Victoria Roper

Hosted by Jane Richards
This book delves deep into the question of what is legal education for? Who does it serve, and how, as educators can we reflect on what we deliver in the …