New Books in Education
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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, Children’s 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)
52 mins; February 15, 2026
Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, genre, et citoyennetĂ© au Ghana et en CĂŽte d’Ivoire (annĂ©es 1900-1970)" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024)
57 mins; February 11, 2026
Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them
45 mins; February 05, 2026
Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
60 hours 49 mins; February 05, 2026
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025)
34 mins; February 02, 2026
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; January 31, 2026
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; January 15, 2026
Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)
34 mins; January 12, 2026
Jo Mackiewicz, "Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace" (Springer, 2025)
62 hours 24 mins; January 09, 2026
Terra Jacobson and Spencer Brayton, "Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success" (ACRL, 2025)
45 mins; January 06, 2026
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; December 29, 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 Don’t 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)
65 hours 45 mins; August 26, 2025
Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; August 26, 2025
Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
64 hours 21 mins; August 19, 2025
Christopher R. Matthews, "Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between" (Routledge, 2025)
31 mins; August 15, 2025
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
56 mins; August 14, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
61 hours 41 mins; August 13, 2025
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
20 mins; August 11, 2025
Alexandra Freidus, "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2025)
28 mins; August 10, 2025
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
51 mins; August 07, 2025
Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025)
68 hours 16 mins; July 29, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Pooja Agarwal, Cynthia Nebel, Veronica Yan, "Smart Teaching Stronger Learning: Practical Tips From 10 Cognitive Scientists" (Unleash Learning Press, 2025)
74 hours 22 mins; July 06, 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)
48 mins; June 22, 2025
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 20, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
57 mins; June 12, 2025
Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, "Power On!" (MIT Press, 2022)
59 mins; June 09, 2025
Harrison Browne and Rachel Browne, "Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes" (Beacon Press, 2025)
42 mins; June 08, 2025
Daniel Karpowitz, "College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
77 hours 10 mins; June 01, 2025
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
44 mins; May 30, 2025
Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
39 mins; May 28, 2025
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
71 hours 39 mins; May 17, 2025
Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
38 mins; May 15, 2025
Kin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025)
43 mins; May 13, 2025
Gina Seymour, "Youth Social Action in the Library: Cultivating Change Makers" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
42 mins; May 10, 2025
Stacy Brown, "Revolutionize Youth Book Clubs: Strategies for Meaningful and Fun Reading Experiences" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
63 hours 1 min; May 08, 2025
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
34 mins; May 07, 2025
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
56 mins; April 30, 2025
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
38 mins; April 26, 2025
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
50 mins; April 23, 2025
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
52 mins; April 22, 2025
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 55 mins; April 16, 2025
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
46 mins; April 15, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; April 14, 2025
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
27 mins; April 13, 2025
Katherine Ngo, "Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China" (Lever Press, 2025)
70 hours 26 mins; April 11, 2025
From Awareness to Action: A Conversation with Nancy Ceulemans on Understanding Children's Behavior
60 hours 12 mins; April 10, 2025