Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCrystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 485
A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press, 2024) tells the little-known story …
1 year, 5 months ago
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 77
In Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Lindsay Weinberg evaluates how this latest era o…
1 year, 6 months ago
A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names
Episode 245
Today’s book is: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024), by Mic…
1 year, 6 months ago
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 246
Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital te…
1 year, 6 months ago
Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 245
The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools (Routledge, 2022) traces the historical development of the World History course as it has been t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 1521
The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its his…
1 year, 6 months ago
Michael Plekon, "Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Life and Work Today" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
Episode 288
In an era where congregations are shrinking and fewer people engage with faith communities, Michael Plekon's book Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Li…
1 year, 6 months ago
Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 17
From their founding, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) educated as many as 90 percent of Black college students in the United Stat…
1 year, 6 months ago
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Episode 243
Today’s book is: That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Amanda Jones, which offers her story of life as a sm…
1 year, 6 months ago
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 242
In Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity (Cornell UP, 2024), Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and …
1 year, 6 months ago