In Local Histories, the contributors seek to challenge the widely held belief that the origin of American composition as a distinguishable discipline can be traced to a small number of elite colleges such as Harvard, Yale, and Michigan in the mid- to...

An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad schoolSome of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get...

Educational Philosophy for a Post-secular Age reinterprets post-secular insights for educational theory by recognising that the persistence of religion in contemporary life raises new questions about the place of religion in education. Two common...

Furet, Francois, Ozouf, Jacques

An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and...

A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor.In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the...

How a visionary university and foundation president tackled some of the thorniest problems facing higher educationAs provost and then president of Princeton University, William G. Bowen (1933–2016) took on the biggest and most complex challenges...

How the Common Core standardizes our kids’ education―and how it threatens our democracy.The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students...

Science education has undergone a revolution in recent years, shifting its emphasis from breadth and memorization to depth and understanding. Teaching Science for Understanding begins with an overview of the changes in science education. It then presents...

The curriculum-driven instructional model has been the standard method of teaching for more than a century, but it is consistently failing to produce well-educated citizens and lifelong learners. Pressured by standardized testing and rigid pacing...

This provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good.Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's "regime of kindness" to...

“The ‘best’ students are curious risk-takers who make connections across disciplines. By following those instincts―rather than simply chasing ‘success’―the best students achieved it…A wonderful exploration of excellence.”―Fortune“Skillfully weaves...

"A stunning and ambitious origins story."—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling authorThe remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America’s most pressing civil...

"Zero tolerance" began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. Ironically, as this timely collection makes clear, recent research indicates that as...

In the colorblind era of Post-Civil Rights America, race is often wrongly thought to be irrelevant or, at best, a problem of racist individuals rather than a systemic condition to be confronted. Race, Whiteness, and Education interrupts this dangerous...

Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been...

Picking up where Christopher Jencks's and David Riesman's landmark work The Academic Revolution (1968) left off, this book examines the impact of recent upheavals in higher education on the American professoriate. Examining such factors as declining...

An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the...