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...

Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...

The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...

García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...

"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?

Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...

Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

How does the world of book reviews work?

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...

Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..

American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

If we want children from poor families and communities to succeed in school, then we must pay attention to more than merely what happens in school..