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Month: February 2016

Hot Off the Presses!

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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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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  • Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation
  • The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education
  • Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education

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