Education Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/education/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Education Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/education/ 32 32 Gatsby @ 100: American Classrooms, American Dreams? https://www.publicbooks.org/gatsby-100-american-classrooms-american-dreams/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59319 The story of Gatsby, Nick, Tom, and Daisy is also, much more importantly, part of the history of hundreds of millions of student readers and their teachers, spanning eight decades.

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]]> Protest Pedagogy https://www.publicbooks.org/protest-pedagogy/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57197 The encampments could be understood as masterful examples of project-based learning in civic engagement.

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]]> D.A.R.E. Is More Than Just Antidrug Education—It Is Police Propaganda https://www.publicbooks.org/dare-is-more-than-just-anti-drug-education-it-is-police-propaganda/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:00:06 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55803 DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

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]]> In Defense of Imagination https://www.publicbooks.org/in-defense-of-imagination/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55590 West Virginia University's unprecedented cuts to its liberal arts programs sells the public a university tethered to market demands at the expense of imaginative expansion and intellectual curiosity.

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]]> “Let Us Gather Together” https://www.publicbooks.org/let-us-gather-together/ Tue, 02 May 2023 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51906 Capital violently forces dispossessed people into markets, workplaces, and prisons. But such forced meetings could end capitalism itself.

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]]> How to Undocument a Narrative https://www.publicbooks.org/undocumented-immigrants-narratives/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49796 For decades, undocumented Americans have been asked to tell their stories, in the hopes that this would galvanize political change. Did it work?

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]]> “The Good of the Whole”: Talking Weaving, Coding, and Indigenous Scholarship with Rhiannon Sorrell https://www.publicbooks.org/weaving-coding-indigenous-scholarship-rhiannon-sorrell/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49433 ”When you work here, you work in the interest of the people in the community, not just your own personal goals.”

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]]> Walking Among the University’s Ruins https://www.publicbooks.org/future-of-universities-american-democracy/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47787 Some wager that the end is not inevitable: that universities can reassert their centrality to the American liberal democratic project.

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]]> Freedom Education https://www.publicbooks.org/freedom-education/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:00:41 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45705 An educated public grew out of freedom, W. E. B. Du Bois claimed. And education was also freedom’s surest protector.

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]]> Prison Tech Comes Home https://www.publicbooks.org/prison-tech-comes-home/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44831 Landlords’, bosses’ and schools’ intrusion of surveillance technologies into the home extends the carceral state into domestic space.

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