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..

"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

Albarran explores the changing politics of childhood during the period 1920-1940, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution...

Mindfulness is widely embraced in the business and athletic communities as a valuable technique to optimize performance. Author Logan Thompson, an expert in both test prep and mindfulness, says that it's about time the test prep community embraces it as well...

Using West Germany as a case study to explore European trends, the book analyzes how the Council of Europe and European Community’s ideological goals were implemented for specific national groups...

An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children...

With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is timely...

Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.

The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....

Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...

Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...