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Month: August 2016

Out Standing in the Field!

August 17, 2016

Yahoo!  I’ve just heard that my Other School Reformers has been selected for the History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award for 2015.  Wowzers.   I’ll be joining some of my history heroes and some of my favorite books as winners of this prize.  For example: 2014, William Reese, Testing Wars in the Public Schools: … More Out Standing in the Field!

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….but Is It Any Good?

August 9, 2016

Okay, cheapskates…for those of you who are still wondering if you should shell out twenty bucks for our new book, here’s a way for you to try before you buy.  Professor Amy Lark of Michigan Technological University has offered a review in the pages of American Biology Teacher.  You need a subscription to read the … More ….but Is It Any Good?

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Hot off the presses!

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:

Recent Posts

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  • Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution

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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
  • Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution

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