What’s Wrong with Our Schools and What Can We Do About It?
A manifesto for overcoming educational inequality in America’s schools....
Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Higher Education?
A book predicting the imminent threat to American civilization from its own universities is only the latest rewrite of an old falsehood....
Sneaker Money
Connor Goodwin on "University of Nike," Joshua Hunt's look at how companies like Nike control institutions of higher learning....
Students Want to Write Well; We Don’t Let Them
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s new manifesto for the writing classroom....
AWP on the Brink
AWP’s recently terminated director of Conferences outlines the dangers facing the organization....
Himmler’s Antiquity
Alison C. Traweek discusses the racist origins of classics as a discipline....
The Apprentice in Theory: Fan, Student, Star
Catherine Liu and Devan Bailey reflect on Avital Ronell and the Theory star system....
Time to Take Sexism in Post-Secondary Education Seriously
Sarah Boon looks at “Sexism Ed,” a new collection of essays from Kelly J. Baker that looks at how gender discrimination impacts women’s lives in academia....
Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics
How the humanities can save us....
Cisco and Microsoft — Their Part in My Downfall; or, the Lost Ethics of Higher Ed; or, Maybe, a Sob Story
Toby Miller reflects on his unfortunate experiences in British academia....
Remaking the University: Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Democracy and Interpretation in the United States
What do Frederick Douglass and the New Criticism have in common?...
Whose University Is It Anyway?
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?...
