Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMargaret Grace Myers, "The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine" (Beacon Press, 2025)
The US has some of the highest rates of STIs and teen pregnancies in the industrialized world. A comprehensive sex education curriculum—which teaches…
7 months, 1 week ago
Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
In Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, scholars and practitioners who have worked together in various capacities acro…
7 months, 1 week ago
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and …
7 months, 1 week ago
Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of educ…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout thei…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)
Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature (Routledge, 2025) investigates the gender representations that French children's litera…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)
In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve as a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
James Elwick, "Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing (U Toronto Press, 2025) takes historiographic and sociological perspectiv…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
For many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clear…
8 months ago
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Matthew D. Nelsen, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, has a new book out that focuses on the content of civic ed…
8 months ago