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About Max Jacobs
I'm a PhD student in Education at Rutgers University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Max:
February 11, 2025
Mr. Lancaster's System
Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusett…
December 4, 2024
Dividing the Public
In Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity (Cornell UP, 2024), Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and e…
June 30, 2024
Plantation Pedagogy
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempte…
June 5, 2024
Democracy and Education
John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's ide…
February 17, 2024
Puerto Rican Chicago
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom exper…
October 22, 2023
A Is for Arson
In A Is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education (Cornell UP, 2023), Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to unco…
September 22, 2023
Off the Mark
Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, …