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Month: February 2016

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February 16, 2016

I’m happy to see the first copy of the new book this morning!  It should be hitting bookstores soon.   Keep your eyes peeled for updates…

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Check out the book one reviewer called “an astonishingly original and compelling interpretation of the origin of modern, urban public-school systems in the United States.”

Check out the book one reviewer called  “an astonishingly original and compelling interpretation of the origin of modern, urban public-school systems in the United States.”

Before MAGA, before the “1776 curriculum,” there was creationism–the school culture-war that set the pattern.

Now available from Oxford UP:

In this 2015 book (Harvard UP), I ask the question: what does it mean to be “conservative” about education?

Winner, History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award, 2016

In TECN, I team up with philosopher Harvey Siegel to tackle a different question: Why are we still fighting about evolution?

University of Chicago Press, 2016

My first book (2010) looked at the roots of our current educational culture wars:

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