Education

Nothing Will Go Back: An Interview with Dr. Andrea Pető of Central European University
Stephanie Newman interviews Dr. Andrea Pető, a professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest....
Stephanie NewmanJun 7, 2017
The Groves of Academe: On “Keep the Damned Women Out”
Andrew Seal on Nancy Weiss Malkiel's "'Keep the Damned Women Out': The Struggle for Coeducation."...
Andrew SealJun 3, 2017
- Education
- History
Remaking the University: The Idea of the English University
Michael Meranze reviews Stefan Collini’s “Speaking of Universities.”...
Michael MeranzeMay 23, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Education
Ulterior Designs: Marc Nieson’s “Schoolhouse”
Matt Seidel on Marc Nieson's "Schoolhouse."...
Matt SeidelFeb 8, 2017
- Education
- Memoir
Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon review Christopher Newfield’s new book on public universities....
Paul Reitter, Chad WellmonDec 13, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Education
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Ted Underwood
Part 11 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities, as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy....
Melissa DinsmanAug 10, 2016
- Education
- Philosophy
Bad Education
Garrard Conley widens the scope of queer literature with his memoir about growing up in a devout Baptist home and surviving conversion therapy....
Steven TagleJun 23, 2016
- Education
- Memoir
The Elephant in the Seminar Room: Should the PhD Be Saved?
A review of Leonard Cassuto’s "The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It"....
Stephen MilderMay 26, 2016
- Cultural Studies
- Education
The Hidden Dying of Doctors: What the Humanities Can Teach Medicine, and Why We All Need Medicine to Learn It
There is an equally heartbreaking loss of another young doctor in Paul Kalanithi’s book, one especially troubling because it received almost no commentary....
Lois LeveenMay 25, 2016
Speed Intoxication
When we ask why we don’t have enough time, we make it worse....
Jeffrey L. KoskyMay 24, 2016
- Education
- Philosophy
The Counterrevolution Will Be Televised: On the Current Crisis of Indian Universities
In India today, a powerful propagandist — commercial media — has replaced the state broadcasting apparatus. This is neoliberal politics, Indian style....
Arvind RajagopalMay 5, 2016
Mission High and the Education Culture War
IF THERE WAS EVER a melting pot, we were it.” So reminisced a proud alumnus of Mission High School in 1977, when his alma mater, San Francisco’s oldest and first secondary school, had just turned 81 years old. A fellow ...
Natalia Mehlman PetrzelaApr 10, 2016
- Education
- Nonfiction
Portrait of a Press: The University of Akron Series in Poetry
On the fight to keep the Akron Series in Poetry alive....
Philip MetresJan 29, 2016
- Education
- Poetry
Pedagogy with a Hammer: On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for a Neoliberal Era
Gone is the heyday of the enlightened institution. It is possible, some fear, that an anti-education has emerged in its wake....
Mimi HowardJan 9, 2016
- Education
- Philosophy
Somewhere Between the Two: The Extracurricular Education of Poet Hannah Sanghee Park
Hannah Sanghee Park’s poems accelerate by breaking down....
Jessica LaserJan 5, 2016
- Education
- Poetry
The Devil in the Shape of a Preschool Teacher
Richard Beck argues that day care ritual abuse trials of the 1980s were a vengeful response to a changing social order poised to grant women new freedoms....
Jacqui ShineDec 13, 2015
- Education
“Another University Is Possible”: Thoughts on Student Protests and Universities in Postcolonial Africa
The modern university is an efficient site for the neoliberal commoditizing of knowledge....
Desiree LewisDec 9, 2015
Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’t
Universities, in the interest of increasing enrollments (= money), are willing to flatter you and your children so shamelessly …...
Ron SrigleyDec 9, 2015
Merit Square-Off: The Fight Over College Admissions
Elite colleges are not meritocracies — if by “meritocracy” we mean that students are admitted solely on the basis of high test scores....
Steven BrintSep 13, 2015
- Education
Mendez on “Mendez”: High School Students in Boyle Heights Write About the Desegregation Case After Which Their School Is Named
The students of Mendez High School in Boyle Heights write a book about the influential but little-known school desegregation case after which their school is named....
Scott DoyleJun 18, 2015
- Education
- Politics and Economics
The Human in University Education
A meditation on how we organize and produce knowledge at the university, and the need for study of study....
Paul A. BovéNov 13, 2014
- Education
- Philosophy
Is College Still Worth It?
“Our failing colleges” got the A-side listing. The B-side, “our failing pragmatism: how a market focus hurt college learning” — never got played....
Christopher NewfieldSep 29, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Education
A Truthy Critique of American Higher Ed
"Excellent Sheep" enters a conversation that is well worth engaging — if only because public opinion, stoked with Deresiewicz-style fables passing as fact, has the power to do great harm....
Kevin DettmarSep 25, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Education
The Counterreformation in Higher Education
The public has a right to know what politicians and business leaders are really doing to their higher education systems, why they are doing it, and how to respond....
Christopher NewfieldOct 19, 2013
- Education