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David Brooks — A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person original ↗

13 Oct 2025

Preface to the Chinese Edition of A Perfect Mess original ↗

9 Oct 2025

James March: Education and the Pursuit of Optimism original ↗

6 Oct 2025

Teach for America and Teacher Ed: Heads You Win, Tails We Lose original ↗

2 Oct 2025

E.P. Thompson: Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism original ↗

29 Sept 2025

Perils of the Professionalized Historian original ↗

25 Sept 2025

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22 Sept 2025

Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research original ↗

18 Sept 2025

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15 Sept 2025

Boys Are Falling Behind — Overschooling Is the Reason original ↗

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Rose Horowitch — The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A original ↗

8 Sept 2025

How the Fall of Empire Spurred the Rise of Modernity — and Parallels with the Rise of US Higher Ed original ↗

4 Sept 2025

Steven Mintz — History with a Human Soul original ↗

1 Sept 2025

Schooling the Meritocracy: How Schools Came to Democratize Merit, Formalize Achievement, and Naturalize Privilege original ↗

28 Aug 2025

Julien Berman — How Higher Education Failed America’s Poor original ↗

25 Aug 2025

Rags to Riches: How US Higher Ed Went from Pitiful to Powerful original ↗

21 Aug 2025

Links to All My Publications and Course Materials — An Update List original ↗

18 Aug 2025

A System Without a Plan original ↗

14 Aug 2025

All of My Course Syllabi, Including Links to Readings, Reading Tips, and Slides original ↗

11 Aug 2025

My New Book: The Emergent Genius of American Higher Education original ↗

7 Aug 2025

Marx’s “The Fetishism of Commodities” and Its Implications for Education original ↗

4 Aug 2025

Life on the Margins: Why Teacher Ed Has So Little Impact on Ed Policy original ↗

31 Jul 2025

Frank Bruni — For the Love of Sentences original ↗

28 Jul 2025

Sermon on Educational Research original ↗

24 Jul 2025

Carly Ann York — In Defense of “Silly” Science original ↗

21 Jul 2025

The Exceptionalism of American Higher Education original ↗

17 Jul 2025

Larry Cuban — Success, Failure, and “Mediocrity” in U.S Schools original ↗

14 Jul 2025

No Exit: Public Education as an Inescapably Public Good original ↗

10 Jul 2025

Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July”original ↗

7 Jul 2025

Why We Need Histories of Education original ↗

3 Jul 2025

Perry Bacon — We Don’t Have an Education Crisis in America original ↗

30 Jun 2025

The Dysfunctional Pursuit of Relevance in Educational Research original ↗

26 Jun 2025

Garry Wills on the History of the Venetian Empire original ↗

23 Jun 2025

Schooling the Meritocracy original ↗

19 Jun 2025

David Brooks — We Are the Most Rejected Generation original ↗

16 Jun 2025

When Is School the Answer to What Social Problems?original ↗

12 Jun 2025

Ezra Klein — You Try to Build Anything, and You’re Stepping into Quicksand original ↗

9 Jun 2025

The State as Organized Crime original ↗

5 Jun 2025

Peter Gray — The Total Failure of the Common Core original ↗

2 Jun 2025

Formation of the US Common School System original ↗

29 May 2025

Clay Shirky — Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?original ↗

26 May 2025

Public Schooling as Social Welfare original ↗

22 May 2025

Boaz Barak: How About We Don’t Bring Our Whole Selves to the Classroom original ↗

19 May 2025

Scholarship Thrives on Peripheral Vision original ↗

15 May 2025

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12 May 2025

We Live in the Best of Times — Really original ↗

8 May 2025

Christopher Mims — We Now Know How AI “Thinks” — And It’s Barely Thinking at All original ↗

5 May 2025

What Schools Can’t Do original ↗

1 May 2025

Yascha Mounk — The WASPs Are Gone original ↗

28 Apr 2025

Accountability Could Kill US Higher Ed original ↗

24 Apr 2025

Hilarius Bookbinder — Stereotypes as Heuristics original ↗

21 Apr 2025

The Problems that Accountability Metrics Pose for Schooling original ↗

17 Apr 2025

Larry Cuban — Policymakers and Teachers Live in Different Worlds original ↗

14 Apr 2025

College: What Is It Good For?original ↗

10 Apr 2025

Justin Sider — The Problem with Pedagogy Gurus original ↗

7 Apr 2025

Tilly: Why? Different Ways that People Give Reasons — and Lessons for Scholars original ↗

3 Apr 2025

Francis Fukuyama — Our Hamiltonian Moment original ↗

31 Mar 2025

Writing as an Exercise in Arrogance and Humility original ↗

27 Mar 2025

Peter Wei — The Professional-Managerial Class Has No Future original ↗

24 Mar 2025

Schools Should Focus on Producing More Hustlers than Scholars original ↗

20 Mar 2025

Ilana Horwitz — PhD Students Should Think Like Entrepreneurs original ↗

17 Mar 2025

Schools Are at the Root of the Youth Mental Health Crisis original ↗

13 Mar 2025

John Etchemendy — The Threat from Within original ↗

10 Mar 2025

A Brutal Review of My First Book original ↗

6 Mar 2025

Charles Mann — We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It original ↗

3 Mar 2025

Advice for New PhD Students original ↗

27 Feb 2025

Harold Wechsler — Group Repulsion in the History of US Higher Ed original ↗

24 Feb 2025

Reflections on Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation” and the Role of the Professor original ↗

20 Feb 2025

An Ode to Snow Days original ↗

17 Feb 2025

The Esthetic Pleasures of Scholarly Writing original ↗

13 Feb 2025

Against the AI Writing Machines original ↗

10 Feb 2025

Writing Tips original ↗

6 Feb 2025

Ian Morris — War! What Is It Good For?original ↗

3 Feb 2025

Progressivism and Ed Schools — An American Romance original ↗

30 Jan 2025

Philip Jackson — The Daily Grind original ↗

27 Jan 2025

Two Cheers for School Bureaucracy original ↗

23 Jan 2025

Brian Klass — Against Optimization original ↗

20 Jan 2025

How Football Helped Make US Universities Great original ↗

16 Jan 2025

River Page — We Don’t Need More Tiger Moms original ↗

13 Jan 2025

How School Reform Deformed Student Learning original ↗

9 Jan 2025

Frank Bruni — The Best Sentences of 2024 original ↗

6 Jan 2025

Getting It Wrong — Rethinking a Life in Scholarship original ↗

2 Jan 2025

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Johann Neem — A Usable Past: Providing a Narrative to House the Facts of American History original ↗

30 Dec 2024

You Don’t Need to Kill Yourself Trying to Get into the Ivies original ↗

26 Dec 2024

Bruce Kimball and Sarah Iler — College Leaders as Cookie Monsters original ↗

23 Dec 2024

Exceptionalism in US Higher Education original ↗

19 Dec 2024

India’s Education Problem original ↗

16 Dec 2024

Links to All My Publications and Course Materials — An Update List original ↗

12 Dec 2024

Jon Zimmerman — A Trump Voter Walks Into My Office original ↗

9 Dec 2024

The Lure of Statistics for Educational Researchers original ↗

5 Dec 2024

Robin Lee Mozer — I Would Rather Do Anything Else than Grade Your Final Papers original ↗

2 Dec 2024

Doctoral Study as a Transformative Experience original ↗

28 Nov 2024

David Brooks: Voters to Elites — Do You See Me Now?original ↗

25 Nov 2024

The Lust for Academic Fame original ↗

21 Nov 2024

Khalid and Snyder: Stop Treating Students Like Babies original ↗

18 Nov 2024

Voters Give a Big Thumbs Down to America’s Leaders original ↗

14 Nov 2024

Walter Russell Mead: American Leadership Has a Versailles Problem original ↗

11 Nov 2024

Teacher Persona original ↗

7 Nov 2024

Alva Noe — Computers Can’t Think original ↗

4 Nov 2024

College — What Is It Good For?original ↗

31 Oct 2024