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About Laura Kelly
Laura Beth Kelly is an assistant professor of Educational Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Laura Beth Kelly is an assistant professor of Educational Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
NBN Episodes hosted by Laura:
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…
July 20, 2024
Unsettling Choice
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually …
June 28, 2024
Making Americans
A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant s…
June 27, 2024
The Education Wars
A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist grou…
June 16, 2024
Good Boys, Bad Hombres
The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys…
May 7, 2024
Knowing Silence
Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling. There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that c…
October 9, 2023
Expelling Public Schools
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores the…
August 23, 2023
The Death of Public School
America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in pub…
August 18, 2023
Segregation by Experience
Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students’ fascination to create unique l…
June 28, 2023
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Across the U.S., state legislatures-often under the cover of darkness, and usually in spite of public opposition-are passing bills that channel public…
June 7, 2023
Willful Defiance
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline…
May 9, 2023
Districts That Succeed
In Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement (Harvard Education Press, 2021), long-time education writer…
April 26, 2023
How Education Policy Shapes Literacy Instruction
Reading instruction is the most legislated area of education and the most frequently referenced metric for measuring educational progress. This book, …
April 26, 2023
Refugee High
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021. Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award. A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest…