Hava Rachel Gordon, "This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform" (NYU Press, 2021)| Listen on Anghami

Yesterday

Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)

What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers (Edward Elgar, 2025) readers have an answer to this question fro ... Show More

45m 51s

Yesterday

Tara Lohan, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life" (Island Press, 2025)

Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara’s first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she followed her passion to become an accomplished environmental journalist, initially as a graduate student in literary non-fiction, ... Show More

36m 35s

Jan 26

Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel r ... Show More

27m 9s

Jun 2024

Public Schools: Talking Across the Divide. Becky Pringle and Gisele Huff

<p>Almost everyone has an opinion about public education, especially in the years since the COVID pandemic when the physical closure of schools and online schooling became highly controversial.</p> <p>The vast majority of American students attend public school, but the numbers ar ... Show More

23m 27s

May 2023

Jacqueline Mondros and Joan Minieri, "Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Jacqueline Mondros and Joan Minieri's book Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy (Columbia UP, 2023) draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for soc ... Show More

32m 25s

Oct 2023

John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey—a conflict that is raging in cities across the co ... Show More

44m 35s

Mar 2021

The Future of Education: Sam Sorbo, Jill Simonian, Corey DeAngelis | ROUNDTABLE

<p>Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Sam Sorbo, Jill Simonian, and Corey DeAngelis about the future of education after COVID. The U.S. education system's failures have been exposed by the pandemic. Whether it was the teachers' union in your district that kept schools closed ... Show More

31m 28s

Jun 2021

FreshEd #244 – Transnational Class Formation (Karen Lillie)

Elite schools help reproduce the capitalist class. The sons and daughters of the wealthy go to elite schools to gain networks and receive education that helps maintain their social status in the future. My guest today, Karen Lillie, has looked at this process in an elite school i ... Show More

32m 14s

Apr 2024

Andrea Wenzel, "Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Journalists have a long history of covering race and racism in the United States, telling stories that shed light on protest, activism, institutional turmoil, and policy change. Especially in recent years, though, the racial politics of journalism has very often become the story ... Show More

54m 56s

Aug 2021

FreshEd #154 Climate Change and Education Policy (Marcia McKenzie)

Next week we will air another episode of Flux, our series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. In fact, it’ll be the last episode of Flux for the year before we launch the application period for the next round of fellows. Next week’ ... Show More

36 m

Jun 2014

David C. Berliner, Gene V. Glass et al., “50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools” (Teachers College Press, 2014)

David C. Berliner, Gene V. Glass, and associates are the authors of 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education (Teachers College Press, 2014). Dr. Berliner is Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University. Gene V ... Show More

52m 1s

Oct 2021

Welcome to The Academy!

Right now so many of us are burnt out and overwhelmed: by the pandemic; by the uncertainty of the future; and by huge challenges like climate change, systemic racism, and inequality. The Long Time Academy is an immersive and entertaining new podcast that steps into this space wit ... Show More

4m 40s

Apr 2022

Kids Are Not Okay PART 2- The Paradigm Shift We Must Make in Parenting and Education - Episode 103

Episode Description: Dana Kaplan, educational coach for kids who are out of the box learners is BACK in our PART 2 of The Kids Are Not Okay with a panel of experts. Jen Rafferty, founder of the Empowered Educator - giving teachers support, Stacey McFarland Founder of Soul Studio ... Show More

59m 46s

Hava Rachel Gordon, "This Is Our School!...