Garret Keizer, “Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher” (Metropolitan Books, 2014)
Whatever its current prestige in our society, teaching is undoubtedly complex work. Like physicians and therapists, teachers work with people, rather than things. They try to help their students to im...
12 Nov 20151h 6min
Sara Bronin and Ryan Rowberry, “Historic Preservation in a Nutshell” (West Academic Publishing, 2014)
Historic Preservation in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, 2014), co-authored by Sara Bronin and Ryan Rowberry provides the first-ever in-depth summary of historic preservation law within its loca...
8 Nov 201556min
Lisa Tessman, “Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Moral theories are often focused almost exclusively on answering the question, “What ought I do?” Typically, theories presuppose that for any particular agent under any given circumstance, there indee...
1 Nov 20151h 3min
Daniel Geary, “Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Daniel Geary is the Mark Pigott Associate Professor in U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin. His book Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)...
27 Okt 201557min
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, “Performing Policy” (Palgrave, 2014)
How has American cultural and artistic policy changed over the last 25 years? Performing Policy: How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programmes Redefined US Artists for the Twenty-First Century (Pa...
20 Okt 201559min
Miriam Solomon, “Making Medical Knowledge” (Oxford, 2015)
How are scientific discoveries transmitted to medical clinical practice? When the science is new, controversial, or simply unclear, how should a doctor advise his or her patients? How should informati...
15 Okt 20151h 4min
Dana Suskind, “Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain”
We may disagree about whether phonics or whole language is the better approach to reading instruction or whether bilingual education or English immersion is the better way to support English language ...
13 Okt 201536min
Ron Berger, “Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools Through Student-Engaged Assessment” (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
Many of us went through school not fully knowing what we were supposed to be learning or how our teachers were measuring our progress. These priorities and processes were largely hidden to us as stude...
6 Okt 201554min
