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Top Public Universities Have a Lot More High-Scoring Students than the Most Selective Privates", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/02/02/jay-mathews-dont-fret-that-harvard-turned-you-down-top-public-universities-have-a-lot-more-high-scoring-students-than-the-most-selective-privates-2/", "published_at": "2026-02-02T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-0bcc-731a-b7cf-8be73577bb06", "title": "Career Ladders and the Early School Teacher: A Story of Inequality and Opportunity", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/29/career-ladders-and-the-early-school-teacher-a-story-of-inequality-and-opportunity-2/", "published_at": "2026-01-29T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-0bcc-731a-b7cf-8be73581454d", "title": "Paul Fussell — “Thank God for the Atom Bomb”", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/26/paul-fussell-thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb-3/", "published_at": "2026-01-26T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-0bcc-731a-b7cf-8be736439f06", "title": "Doctoral Dysfunction", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/22/doctoral-dysfunction-4/", "published_at": "2026-01-22T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e27902923097", "title": "Becca Rothfeld — A Philosopher’s Case for Living Playfully Without Keeping Score", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/19/becca-rothfeld-a-philosophers-case-for-living-playfully-without-keeping-score/", "published_at": "2026-01-19T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e279029a9d05", "title": "The Chronic Failure of Curriculum Reform", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/15/the-chronic-failure-of-curriculum-reform-4/", "published_at": "2026-01-15T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e27902a24c8b", "title": "Marie Newhouse — The Campus Civility Collapse", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/12/marie-newhouse-the-campus-civility-collapse/", "published_at": "2026-01-12T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e2790361f8e2", "title": "The Problem of Public Schools in a Liberal Democracy: Insights from Albert Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty”", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/08/the-problem-of-public-schools-in-a-liberal-democracy-insights-from-albert-hirschmans-exit-voice-and-loyalty/", "published_at": "2026-01-08T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e279045e8e42", "title": "The Triumph and Tragedy of the Byzantine Empire — How It Preserved the West and Devastated the East", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/05/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-byzantine-empire-how-it-preserved-the-west-and-devastated-the-east-2/", "published_at": "2026-01-05T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e27905480b81", "title": "Peculiar Problems of Preparing Educational Researchers", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2026/01/01/peculiar-problems-of-preparing-educational-researchers/", "published_at": "2026-01-01T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e27905f484c6", "title": "Steven Mintz — When Words Still Mattered: Shakespeare, Language, and the Birth of Historical Consciousness", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/29/steven-mintz-when-words-still-mattered-shakespeare-language-and-the-birth-of-historical-consciousness/", "published_at": "2025-12-29T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e279063b0a02", "title": "Public Schools for Private Gain: The Declining American Commitment to Serving the Public Good", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/25/public-schools-for-private-gain-the-declining-american-commitment-to-serving-the-public-good-2/", "published_at": "2025-12-25T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e27906c0ae7d", "title": "Jay Mathews — Why Plans to Raise Educational Standards Will Never Work", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/22/jay-mathews-why-plans-to-raise-educational-standards-will-never-work-2/", "published_at": "2025-12-22T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54a-eeb7-7147-9bdc-e27906f1fbe7", "title": "On Writing: It’s All About Actors and Actions and Cutting the Flab", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/18/on-writing-its-all-about-actors-and-actions-and-cutting-the-flab-2/", "published_at": "2025-12-18T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654eba73efb", "title": "Beverly Gage: The American University Is in Crisis. Not for the First Time.", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/15/beverly-gage-the-american-university-is-in-crisis-not-for-the-first-time/", "published_at": "2025-12-15T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654ec25885e", "title": "School Gave Me the Creeps", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/11/school-gave-me-the-creeps-4/", "published_at": "2025-12-11T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654ecbd87de", "title": "Larry Cuban: School Reform Since “A Nation at Risk” Has Done Little to Promote Economic Growth", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/08/larry-cuban-school-reform-since-a-nation-at-risk-has-done-little-to-promote-economic-growth/", "published_at": "2025-12-08T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654ed5809f1", "title": "Public Goods, Private Goods — The American Struggle over Educational Goals", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/04/public-goods-private-goods-the-american-struggle-over-educational-goals-2/", "published_at": "2025-12-04T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654edf9f5da", "title": "Gordon Wood — America Is a Creedal Nation", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/12/01/gordon-wood-america-is-a-creedal-nation/", "published_at": "2025-12-01T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654ee3beb0a", "title": "Cartoons about Academic Life", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/27/cartoons-about-academic-life-3/", "published_at": "2025-11-27T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654eef0b095", "title": "John Warner — Teach Writing, Not Document Production", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/24/john-warner-teach-writing-not-document-production/", "published_at": "2025-11-24T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654ef2d75ad", "title": "Mutual Subversion: A Short History of the Liberal and the Professional in American Higher Education", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/20/mutual-subversion-a-short-history-of-the-liberal-and-the-professional-in-american-higher-education-2/", "published_at": "2025-11-20T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654efc0a05f", "title": "Max Roser — The Limits of Personal Experience and the Value of Statistics", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/17/__trashed/", "published_at": "2025-11-17T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-285b-72cc-a890-8654efd48580", "title": "Academic Writing Issues: Getting Off to a Fast Start", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/13/academic-writing-issues-getting-off-to-a-fast-start/", "published_at": "2025-11-13T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f640c515e", "title": "Hilarius Bookbinder — In Praise of Frivolous Research", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/10/hilarius-bookbinder-in-praise-of-frivolous-research/", "published_at": "2025-11-10T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f64c6a292", "title": "An Affair to Remember: America’s Brief Fling with the University as a Public Good", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/06/an-affair-to-remember-americas-brief-fling-with-the-university-as-a-public-good-3/", "published_at": "2025-11-07T02:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f650345d2", "title": "A. 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This Scene Says It All.", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/11/03/a-o-scott-whats-so-great-about-slow-horses-this-scene-says-it-all/", "published_at": "2025-11-03T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f65222fbc", "title": "How Not to Defend the Research University", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/10/30/how-not-to-defend-the-research-university-2/", "published_at": "2025-10-30T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f65ccde4a", "title": "James Marriott — The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society and the End of Civilisation", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/10/27/james-marriott-the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-and-the-end-of-civilisation/", "published_at": "2025-10-27T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f666929ae", "title": "NEPC Podcast: Conversation with Chris Saldana about Education Policy", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/10/23/nepc-podcast-conversation-with-chris-saldana-about-education-policy/", "published_at": "2025-10-23T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f674bdbda", "title": "Hilarius Bookbinder — There Is No Government Waste", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/10/20/hilarius-bookbinder-there-is-no-government-waste/", "published_at": "2025-10-20T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f683965fe", "title": "On Writing: How the King James Bible and How It Shaped the English Language and Still Teaches Us How to Write", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/10/16/on-writing-how-the-king-james-bible-and-how-it-shaped-the-english-language-and-still-teaches-us-how-to-write/", "published_at": "2025-10-16T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-8d3f-7391-a791-f31f685423ce", "title": "David Brooks — A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person", "url": "https://davidlabaree.com/2025/10/13/david-brooks-a-commencement-address-too-honest-to-deliver-in-person/", "published_at": "2025-10-13T13:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Researchoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Edward Slingerland on How Drinking Is Essential to Civilizationoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Why We Need Histories of Educationoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Devon Halliday — How to Write a First Page that Grabs the Readeroriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
No Exit: Public Education as an Inescapably Public Goodoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Devon Halliday — Literary Fiction Has Lost the Plotoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The Ironies of Schoolingoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
Catch-22original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Advice for New PhD Studentsoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Steven Pinker — The Euphemism Treadmilloriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Writing as an Exercise in Arrogance and Humilityoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
Cartoons about Academic Researchoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
Being a Scholaroriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
Carl Hendrick — AI Automates Scut Work But Requires Increased Human Supervisionoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
Course Syllabus: History of Higher Education in the USoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Toke Richstein — Who Gets to Decide What Matters Most?original ↗
3 Aug 2026
The AI Challenge to Education and the Triumph of Credentialismoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Katy Purviance — Schools Don’t Just Fail the Kids Who Struggle. They Are Run by the Kids Who Didn’t.original ↗
27 Jul 2026
Know It Before You Mess With Itoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
David Cohen — Teaching Practice: Plus Ca Changeoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
How Football Helped Make US Universities Greatoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
Harold Wechsler — Group Repulsion in the History of US Higher Edoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
What Schools Can’t Dooriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
Gordon Wood: What Explains the Genius of the American Founders?original ↗
6 Jul 2026
Schools Should Focus on Producing More Hustlers than Scholarsoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
Michael Magoon — From Poverty to Progressoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
You Don’t Need to Kill Yourself Trying to Get into the Iviesoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
Adam Kirsch — Why AI Can Never Replace Human Ingenuityoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
History of School Reform Class Syllabus with Links to Readings and Slidesoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
Dominic Ng — Consuming Content Is Not the Same as Learning Itoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
The Lust for Academic Fameoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
Michael Elliott — College Should Be Way More Funoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
Getting It Wrong — Rethinking a Life in Scholarshiporiginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
Steven Mintz — Why We Cannot Recreate the Broadway Golden Ageoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
Two Cheers for School Bureaucracyoriginal ↗
28 May 2026
Hilarius Bookbinder — The End of Credentialingoriginal ↗
25 May 2026
Three Booksoriginal ↗
21 May 2026
David Foster Wallace — Commencement Addressoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
The Problems that Accountability Metrics Pose for Schoolingoriginal ↗
14 May 2026
Julia Fisher — My Students Write Their Papers Backwardsoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
Resisting Educational Standardsoriginal ↗
7 May 2026
Matthew Pittinsky — Three Books, by One Author, that Every EDTech Entrepreneur Should Read…and Whyoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
Labaree and Malizia –The Standards-Driven Pressure Cooker of Public Education Is the Real Crisis We Must Addressoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
Steven Mintz — The Decade That Discovered a Distinct American Voiceoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
Theories of the Historical Development of American Schoolingoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
Chris Sibben — A Hollow Crown: AI and the Formation of Studentsoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
How the Normans Shaped Modern Europeoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
Aden Barton — How Harvard Careerism Killed the Classroomoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Thoughts On My Online Personaoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
Academic Writing Issues: Failing to Tell a Storyoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
How the Fall of the Roman Empire Spurred the Rise of Modernity — and What this Suggests about Rise of US Higher Edoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026
Academic Writing Issues: Zombie Nounsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
The Attractions of Doing Schooloriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Academic Writing Issues: Excessive Signpostingoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloooriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
Julie Lie-Panis on Guarding the Guardians — How Institutions Make Social Life Workoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
Americans Are Overschooledoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
Michael Lind — The New American Eliteoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
Universities Give Away Knowledge and Sell Degreesoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2026
Carl Hendrick — The Blind Regulator: Ashby’s Law and the Unavoidable Logic of Instructional Designoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2026
How Our Education System Fuels Our Political Dividesoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
Steven Mintz — Learning to Write Like AI, and Then Beyond Itoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026
The Five-Paragraph Fetishoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
Eli Stark-Elster — School Is Way Worse for Kids than Social Mediaoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2026
Let’s Measure What No One Teachesoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2026
Hilarius Bookbinder — Why Philosophy Mattersoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
Adventures in Scholarshiporiginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
Jay Mathews — Don’t Fret that Harvard Turned You Down. Top Public Universities Have a Lot More High-Scoring Students than the Most Selective Privatesoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2026
Career Ladders and the Early School Teacher: A Story of Inequality and Opportunityoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
Paul Fussell — “Thank God for the Atom Bomb”original ↗
26 Jan 2026
Doctoral Dysfunctionoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
Becca Rothfeld — A Philosopher’s Case for Living Playfully Without Keeping Scoreoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
The Chronic Failure of Curriculum Reformoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2026
Marie Newhouse — The Campus Civility Collapseoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
The Problem of Public Schools in a Liberal Democracy: Insights from Albert Hirschman’s “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty”original ↗
8 Jan 2026
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Byzantine Empire — How It Preserved the West and Devastated the Eastoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026
Peculiar Problems of Preparing Educational Researchersoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

Steven Mintz — When Words Still Mattered: Shakespeare, Language, and the Birth of Historical Consciousnessoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Public Schools for Private Gain: The Declining American Commitment to Serving the Public Goodoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2025
Jay Mathews — Why Plans to Raise Educational Standards Will Never Workoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2025
On Writing: It’s All About Actors and Actions and Cutting the Flaboriginal ↗
18 Dec 2025
Beverly Gage: The American University Is in Crisis. Not for the First Time.original ↗
15 Dec 2025
School Gave Me the Creepsoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Larry Cuban: School Reform Since “A Nation at Risk” Has Done Little to Promote Economic Growthoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
Public Goods, Private Goods — The American Struggle over Educational Goalsoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
Gordon Wood — America Is a Creedal Nationoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2025
Cartoons about Academic Lifeoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2025
John Warner — Teach Writing, Not Document Productionoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2025
Mutual Subversion: A Short History of the Liberal and the Professional in American Higher Educationoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2025
Max Roser — The Limits of Personal Experience and the Value of Statisticsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
Academic Writing Issues: Getting Off to a Fast Startoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2025
Hilarius Bookbinder — In Praise of Frivolous Researchoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
An Affair to Remember: America’s Brief Fling with the University as a Public Goodoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2025
A. O. Scott — What’s So Great About ‘Slow Horses’? This Scene Says It All.original ↗
3 Nov 2025
How Not to Defend the Research Universityoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2025
James Marriott — The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society and the End of Civilisationoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2025
NEPC Podcast: Conversation with Chris Saldana about Education Policyoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2025
Hilarius Bookbinder — There Is No Government Wasteoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2025
On Writing: How the King James Bible and How It Shaped the English Language and Still Teaches Us How to Writeoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
David Brooks — A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Personoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2025
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