Do Public Schools Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart?
Is school choice compatible with a national lesson plan? Johann N. Neem considers a radical new proposal from Ashley Rogers Berner.
Johann N. Neem is author of What’s the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (2019) and Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (2017), which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Is school choice compatible with a national lesson plan? Johann N. Neem considers a radical new proposal from Ashley Rogers Berner.
Johann Neem reviews Jessi Streib’s new book, “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.”
Johann Neem reviews Will Bunch’s “After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How to Fix It.”
Johann Neem on David Sehat’s explanation of why American law turned secular in the mid-1900s.
Patriotism is a virtue — if you do it right.
Johann N. Neem reviews "Won’t Lose This Dream," a look at Georgia State University's program to graduate more students by Andrew Gumbel.
Jill Lepore’s book argues for a shared national history, but fails to explain what that history looks like.