New Books in Education

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Harrison Browne and Rachel Browne, "Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Jun 8, 2025 – 42:58
Daniel Karpowitz, "College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Jun 1, 2025 – 01:17:10
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
May 30, 2025 – 44:50
Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
May 28, 2025 – 39:07
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 17, 2025 – 01:11:39
Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 16, 2025 – 40:39
Kin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025)
May 13, 2025 – 43:36
Gina Seymour, "Youth Social Action in the Library: Cultivating Change Makers" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 10, 2025 – 42:16
Stacy Brown, "Revolutionize Youth Book Clubs: Strategies for Meaningful and Fun Reading Experiences" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 8, 2025 – 01:03:01
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 7, 2025 – 34:36
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 30, 2025 – 56:34
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
Apr 26, 2025 – 38:27
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
Apr 23, 2025 – 50:32
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 22, 2025 – 52:05
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:01:55
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
Apr 15, 2025 – 46:05
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Apr 14, 2025 – 01:15:23
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 13, 2025 – 27:43
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
Apr 11, 2025 – 01:10:26
From Awareness to Action: A Conversation with Nancy Ceulemans on Understanding Children's Behavior
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:00:12
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
Apr 2, 2025 – 47:40
Teaching International Students in Australia
Mar 30, 2025 – 43:58
David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2025 – 50:28
Teaching With Positive Psychology Skills
Mar 6, 2025 – 54:41
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 4, 2025 – 01:05:37
Lisa Kallman Hopkins and Bridgit McCafferty, "Innovative Library Workplaces: Transformative Human Resource Strategies" (ACRL, 2025)
Mar 2, 2025 – 01:02:42
Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education
Feb 25, 2025 – 45:45
Robyn M. Gillies, "Enquiry-based Science Education" (CRC Press, 2020)
Feb 24, 2025 – 55:10
Adam R. Nelson, "Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 18, 2025 – 01:07:26
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025 – 51:51
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
Feb 11, 2025 – 32:24
Adam Laats, "Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Feb 11, 2025 – 01:01:48
Martín Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)
Feb 8, 2025 – 01:18:03
Mary Zaborskis, "Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability" (NYU Press, 2024)
Feb 5, 2025 – 25:14
Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)
Jan 30, 2025 – 41:58
Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Jan 30, 2025 – 49:52
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 26, 2025 – 53:21
Naomi Hodgson and Stefan Ramaekers, "Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Jan 25, 2025 – 01:01:12
April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 21, 2025 – 57:15
Loleen Berdahl et al., "For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities" (U Alberta, 2024)
Jan 17, 2025 – 43:09
Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 13, 2025 – 54:51
Peter Hessler, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" (Penguin, 2024)
Jan 9, 2025 – 52:06
Why Teachers Turn to AI
Jan 7, 2025 – 33:55
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 6, 2025 – 40:25
Graduate School Myths and Misconceptions
Jan 3, 2025 – 53:19
Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024 – 38:56
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 – 48:12
A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names
Dec 19, 2024 – 01:02:25
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
Dec 19, 2024 – 40:00
Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 18, 2024 – 01:06:57

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