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April 8, 2011

Richard Kahlenberg on Cathie Black

“The qualities needed to run the New York City public school system — not only a knowledge of education, but also some understanding of the circumstances of regular New York City students and their families — are not easily learned...

March 23, 2011

Richard Kahlenberg on Education Reform

“How did the budget crisis — brought on by a recession caused by Wall Street — end up in the laps of America’s schoolteachers? How did teachers, most of whom work very hard every day to educate schoolchildren, become the...

November 29, 2010

Caryl Rivers, Rosalind Chait Barnett: Single-Sex Ed Based on Baloney Science

In a recent op-ed Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett, authors of the forthcoming The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, applaud the recent decision by Boston school superintendent Carol Johnson to back away from...

November 5, 2010

University Press Blog Roundup

To showcase the richness of university press publishing, every so often we like to highlight interesting and provocative items from other university press blogs. Apologies for those we did not include in this installment (see the blog roll for other...

October 29, 2010

University Press Roundup

To showcase the richness of university press publishing, every so often we like to highlight interesting and provocative items from other university press blogs. Apologies for those we did not include in this installment (see the blog roll for other...

September 8, 2010

The Number One Cause of College Happiness — David Leibow

On his blog The College Shrink, David Leibow, author of What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life, uncovers the reason why college students are so unhappy. How unhappy are they? According to a 2009...

August 25, 2010

Back to School — A Questionnaire from What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life

David Leibow’s new book What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life comes just in time for those returning to school, particularly for those whose experience has been disappointing. At the beginning of his book,...

January 26, 2010

Mark C. Taylor in The Chronicle of Higher Ed

The Chronicle Review recently featured Mark C. Taylor highlighting his new philosophical memoir Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living and his provocative views about academia’s status quo. In his article Eric Banks, calls Taylor’s memoir of his...

September 2, 2009

Mark C. Taylor on college majors: are they a thing of the past?

This spring, Mark Taylor’s New York Times op-ed, “End the University as We Know It,” in which he referred to graduate education as the “Detroit of higher learning,” engendered a great deal of debate and a fair amount of anger...

August 13, 2009

A perspective on scholarly publishing — Cathy Davidson

“Who are the robber barons? Sometimes (yes, I mean you, English professors!), it is our own short-sighted book writing and book buying habits that are the problem. Some of the “crisis of scholarly publishing” is of our making. Sometimes the...

April 17, 2009

Jeffrey Perry — A DIY Scholar

The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently ran a great article on Do-it-yourself scholars. Among the scholars portrayed in the article is Jeffrey Perry author of the acclaimed and recently published biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry’s new...

April 6, 2009

The Art of the Peer Review

In What Just Ain’t So, published today on Inside Higher Ed., Patrick H. Alexander, associate director and editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania State University Press, offers a great discussion of the peer review process. Alexander identifies four types of reviews that...

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