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Teaching English Pronunciation
30 mins; March 31, 2026
Nick Juravich, "Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education" (U ï»żIllinois Press, 2024)
59 mins; March 29, 2026
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
29 mins; March 28, 2026
Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
68 hours 51 mins; March 25, 2026
Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Childrenâs Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)
27 mins; March 20, 2026
Helmut Schuster and David Oxley, "Artificial Death of a Career: A Tale of Professional Obsolescence and How to Avoid It" (Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2025)
65 hours 58 mins; March 19, 2026
Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
35 mins; March 17, 2026
Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana
61 hours 20 mins; March 16, 2026
Suzanne Bost, "Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities" (U Minnesota Press)
56 mins; March 15, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson
43 mins; March 14, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton
48 mins; March 13, 2026
Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)
45 mins; March 07, 2026
Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education
59 mins; March 06, 2026
Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
34 mins; March 02, 2026
Ursina Jaeger, "Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten" (Rutgers UP 2025)
66 hours 45 mins; February 28, 2026
A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
63 hours 12 mins; February 26, 2026
Bin Chen, "Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China: Education, Frontier Politics, and Nation-State" (Routledge, 2025)
49 mins; February 16, 2026
Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
57 mins; December 27, 2025
Aaron G. Fountain Jr., "High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2025)
44 mins; December 27, 2025
Scott D. Seligman, "The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
39 mins; December 24, 2025
Amanda Nichols Hess, "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" (ALA, 2025)
58 mins; December 21, 2025
Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life
61 hours 7 mins; December 18, 2025
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 35 mins; December 07, 2025
Jennifer Conrad on Teaching Through Picture Book Appreciation
39 mins; December 03, 2025
Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
44 mins; November 23, 2025
Margaret Grace Myers, "The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine" (Beacon Press, 2025)
39 mins; November 21, 2025
Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
57 mins; November 20, 2025
Carlo Rotella, "What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics" (U California Press, 2025)
47 mins; November 18, 2025
Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
41 mins; November 11, 2025
Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
49 mins; November 08, 2025
Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)
41 mins; November 07, 2025
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)
61 hours 17 mins; November 06, 2025
James Elwick, "Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
63 hours 6 mins; November 02, 2025
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
62 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2025
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; October 23, 2025
Genocide Studies International Vol 16.1, Special Issue on The Future of Genocide Education
53 mins; October 07, 2025
Leading Toward Liberation: How to Build Cultures of Thriving in Higher Education
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Debaditya Bhattacharya, "The Indian University: A Critical History" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
58 mins; September 19, 2025
Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality
47 mins; September 11, 2025
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 08, 2025
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
41 mins; September 07, 2025
Christopher Willard et al., "College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals" (Oxford UP, 2025)
45 mins; September 07, 2025
Who Needs College Anymore: Imagining A Future Where Degrees Donât Matter
51 mins; September 04, 2025
Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching
31 mins; September 02, 2025
Wade Davies, "Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
55 mins; August 31, 2025
Philis BarragĂĄn-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020)
52 mins; August 28, 2025
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Steve Haberlin, "Meditation in the College Classroom: A Pedagogical Tool to Help Students De-Stress, Focus, and Connect" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023).
45 mins; July 06, 2025
Jennifer Crane, "'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
35 mins; July 04, 2025
James M. Lang, "Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
65 hours 5 mins; June 27, 2025
Jennifer R. NĂĄjera, "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education" (Duke UP, 2024)
76 hours 15 mins; June 27, 2025
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
46 mins; June 26, 2025
Milton E. Clarke, "The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins" (Routledge, 2025)
83 hours 0 mins; June 24, 2025
Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)