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Back to SearchUrsula Hackett, "America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 542
Political Scientist Ursula Hackett’s new book, America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State (Cambridge UP, 2020), is the winner o…
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Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Episode 99
In Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Alex Poole, professor of English at Wes…
4 years, 7 months ago
An Interview with Sheldon Schuster and Jim Sterling about the Keck Graduate Institute
Episode 29
The third episode in our series on the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of Applied Life Sciences, the 7th of the Claremont Colleges founded in 1998, fea…
4 years, 7 months ago
Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 1064
Contrary to the claims of many of today’s advocates of computerized instruction and online learning, efforts to use technology to improve the educati…
4 years, 7 months ago
Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 240
Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a…
4 years, 7 months ago
Gordon Gee: President, West Virginia University
Episode 28
Gordon Gee was named the Top University President in the U.S. by Time Magazine, and is the only higher education leader to have been a president 7 ti…
4 years, 8 months ago
Zachary M. Howlett, "Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 410
Every year millions of high school seniors in China take the gaokao, China’s standardized college entrance exam. Students, parents, and head teachers…
4 years, 8 months ago
Scott Miller: President, Virginia Wesleyan University
Episode 27
Scott Miller, who has been recognized as one of the most innovative and influential college presidents in the U.S., shares insights from his over 3 d…
4 years, 8 months ago
Rachel Steinig and Rodi Steinig, "Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education" (Natural Math, 2018)
Episode 65
Math Renaissance: Growing Math Circles, Changing Classrooms, and Creating Sustainable Math Education (Natural Math, 2018) couples two educational mem…
4 years, 8 months ago
Mentoring in the Academy: A Conversation with Dr. Claire Renzetti
Episode 64
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So, we reached across our mentor network to bri…
4 years, 8 months ago