New Books in Education

Interviews with Scholars of Education about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Xueli Wang, "On My Own: The Challenge and Promi...
For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...
49 min
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Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presume...
This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...
78 min
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Jeffery R. Young, "Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guid...
Remember when Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were going to shake higher education to its foundations by giving courses from the world’s most prestigious colleges and universities away free to the world?
28 min
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Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...
67 min
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A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part I: MA i...
In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...
59 min
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Michael B. Horn, "Choosing College: How to Make...
What if everything we tell each other – and ourselves – about why we choose college isn’t true? Is higher education an ideal, a personal goal, or might it be a “job-to-be-done?”
37 min
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Saul J. Weiner, "On Becoming a Healer: The Jour...
Weiner argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations―it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick,...
48 min
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Claudia Rueda, "Students of Revolution: Youth, ...
Rueda offers a history of student organizing against dictatorship in twentieth-century Nicaragua...
51 min
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A. P. Carnevale, "The Merit Myth: How Our Colle...
Colleges fiercely defend America’s higher education system, arguing that it rewards bright kids who have worked hard. But it doesn’t actually work this way...
24 min
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Joshua C. Myers, "We Are Worth Fighting For: A ...
Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....
40 min
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Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
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Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: B...
Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...
39 min
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Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...
102 min
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Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Afric...
Where do good ideas come from?
86 min
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Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for C...
Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...
81 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Ian Burrows, "Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Sl...
Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....
64 min
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Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The ...
Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...
59 min
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E. Michele Ramsey, "Major Decisions: College, C...
Ramsey offers a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study...
75 min
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A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton of the Oxfo...
Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.
46 min
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Terry Iverson, "Finding America's Greatest Cham...
Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...
38 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Courtney M. Dorroll, “Teaching Islamic Studies ...
Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...
54 min
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Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schoo...
Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...
43 min
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Karl Qualls, "Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish...
Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...
57 min