Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 161
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. In Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader …
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Elly Fishman, "Refugee High: Coming of Age in America" (The New Press, 2021)
Episode 213
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021. Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award. A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highes…
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Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 212
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At t…
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Managing your Mental Health During Your PhD
Episode 165
Can your graduate school affect your mental health? Dr. Zoe Ayres joins us to discuss what she wishes she had known before starting graduate school, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 211
America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in pu…
2 years, 8 months ago
Kalani Adolpho et al., "Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2021)
Episode 13
In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. T…
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Satish Kumar and Lorna Howarth, "Regenerative Learning: Nurturing People and Caring for the Planet" (Salt Desert Media, 2022)
Episode 210
Be The Change! Are you a policy maker? Parent? Teacher? Regenerative Learning: Nurturing People and Caring for the Planet (Salt Desert Media, 2022) i…
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Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 207
Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students’ fascination to create unique …
2 years, 8 months ago
Renyi Hong, "Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 209
In Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life (Duke UP, 2022), Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being "passionate about your work" as an affect…
2 years, 8 months ago
Carl Van Ness, "The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Episode 66
In The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (UP of Florida, 2023), Carl Van Ness describes …
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