Education collection

Books on education research, education studies, covering K-12 and higher education, public and private, now on sale.

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Welcome to our hub featuring scholarship on education research and case studies, where you can browse teachable podcast offerings and books on sale.

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EXTRA:

-Read: Why Listening to Kids on Immigration Matters: An interview with Ariana Mangual Figueroa (Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School) with CUNY's The Graduate Center.

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BROWSE COLLECTION:

Strike! Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law William D. Green 2024 Spring: The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics
The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship Race and Revolt in Education Kevin L. Clay and Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., Editors 2024 Spring: When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group’s conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us?
Good Boys, Bad Hombres The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools Michael V. Singh 2024 Spring: The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys
Knowing Silence How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School Ariana Mangual Figueroa 2024 Spring: Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their school experience
Unsettling Choice Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Ujju Aggarwal 2023 Fall: How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
What We Teach When We Teach DH Digital Humanities in the Classroom Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, Editors 2023 Fall: Exploring how DH shapes and is in turn shaped by the classroom
Creating Our Own Lives College Students with Intellectual Disability Michael Gill and Beth Myers, Editors 2023 Fall: Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education
Opening Ceremony Inviting Inclusion into University Governance Kathryn J. Gindlesparger 2023 Fall: Explores how university governance is restricted by ceremony and what it must do to survive
On the Digital Humanities Essays and Provocations Stephen Ramsay 2023 Fall: A witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring: A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
Expelling Public Schools How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark John Arena 2023 Spring: Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system
The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall: How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools
All through the Town The School Bus as Educational Technology Antero Garcia 2023 Spring: The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America
Meaningless Citizenship Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State Sally Wesley Bonet 2022 Fall: A searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation
The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall: Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring: A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
Studious Drift Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education Tyson Lewis and Peter B. Hyland 2022 Fall: What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?
People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall: An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall: How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall: The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring: A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring: Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall: A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall: How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall: A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring: An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring: An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring: Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
Back to the Sandbox Art and Radical Pedagogy Jaroslav Anděl, Editor 2019 Spring: An international group of artists and scholars reflects on the nature and significance of education in contemporary society, introducing new perspectives on learning and creativity
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall: How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
The Right to Be Out Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition Stuart Biegel 2018 Fall: An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall: How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring: Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall: How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall: A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions
UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring: A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall: Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring: Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
It Won’t Be Easy An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching Tom Rademacher 2017 Spring: A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year
Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring: Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring: A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall: Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall: Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall: Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state
A Curriculum of Fear Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools Nicole Nguyen 2016 Fall: Winner: American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall: The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring: If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
American by Paper How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy Kate Vieira 2016 Spring: A richly enlightening look at literacy as lived experience
A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall: How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring: Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
Sexuality in School The Limits of Education Jen Gilbert 2014 Spring: Explores and expands on the role of sexuality in teaching and learning
Educated in Whiteness Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools Angelina E. Castagno 2014 Spring: How well-meaning educators shape and enact diversity-related policies and practices that strengthen whiteness rather than educational equity or justice
Worlds of Autism Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini, Editors 2013 Fall: Amid controversies about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of autism, a timely collection of new and critical perspectives on how the disorder is understood and represented
Academic Profiling Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap Gilda L. Ochoa 2013 Fall: The achievement gap as it is actually experienced by Latino and Asian American students in one California high school