Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRachael Gabriel, "How Education Policy Shapes Literacy Instruction" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 193
Reading instruction is the most legislated area of education and the most frequently referenced metric for measuring educational progress. This book,…
3 years ago
Transforming the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)
Episode 62
We have an engaging discussion with Dr. Dan Greenstein, who in 2018 left the Gates Foundation, where he led the Post-Secondary program, to become the…
3 years ago
Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 194
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton UP, 2020) offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal…
3 years ago
Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)
Episode 84
African-Americans and women are increasingly visible in professional mathematical institutions, organizations, and literature, expanding our mental m…
3 years ago
Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 56
Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 (Brill, 2022) focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-st…
3 years ago
Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
Episode 154
In Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave (Intellect Publishing, 2022), Simon Strange explores the relationship between art and mu…
3 years ago
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Episode 130
Today’s book is: Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities (UNC Press, 2018), by Jonathan Coley. Altho…
3 years ago
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 192
Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It’s been invisible and also omnipresent for a century. Dr. Antero Garcia shows how the U.S. school bus, its fo…
3 years ago
Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz
Season 1 Episode 9
What are the "great books"? What makes them great? Is the cultivation of an intellectual life especially important to citizens of a democratic republ…
3 years ago
The Connected PhD, Part Three
Episode 164
How can a PhD program pivot from a professoriate-apprenticeship system, to one that is mindful of students’ post-grad career goals? This episode comp…
3 years ago