I wrote a piece for @chronicle.com about the problem of public cynicism toward higher education. It recounts a very special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. You can read more about it in Willing Warriors, out December 2nd with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

The good folks @uchicagopress.bsky.social sent me an advanced copy of Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars. I'm thrilled to hold it and you can too this December! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department: careers.historians.org/jobs/2167991... careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...

Look what I got in the mail yesterday! @msteudeman.bsky.social’s excellent new book from @upmississippi.bsky.social about the role of feeling in Reconstruction Era education reforms. If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h

If you have ever wondered why people so regularly destroy American schools, the answer just got a little more affordable! Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Pre-Order at SUNY Press now available for "From a Whisper to a Movement Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest" sunypress.edu/Books/F/From... For inquiries direct message me here, email at [email protected], or email my coeditor, Alan Chu [email protected]

New pub in @trseeditor.bsky.social with @schoolfuss.bsky.social. We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims. Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5

I was thrilled to see Willing Warriors listed right in the middle of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social forthcoming list at #AERA2025. If you’ve been thinking about that email asking conference attendees to refrain from recording each other without permission, Chapter 3 has a story for you!

Happy Friday! (Trying to bring positivity to the end of week) "Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Some personal news--After 10 years at UNT working with the kindest colleagues and coolest students on the planet, I have accepted a new position a little ways down the road at Texas A&M. It is hard to leave Denton, but I am excited to start a new a chapter in College Station.

The University of Chicago Press put up a webpage for Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars! It comes out December 2nd, but pre-orders are available now if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping. ;-)

So my book was "briefly noted" in The New Yorker. feeling totally normal about this, not jumping up and down at all. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have "the culture wars" (re sex, religion, patriotism, testing, etc) come to YOUR public K-12 school? I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc. DM/comment if you!

The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. This thread has (open access or un-paywalled) links to all of the articles in it.

@rachellouisemoran.bsky.social got me this for my birthday. As if I, or anyone else who has ever finished The Power Broker, needs help working that fact into conversation.

@msteudeman.bsky.social's new book about the emergence of federal education policy after the Civil War comes out this summer! If there is a rhetoric or education scholar you have not checked off your holiday shopping list, it appears that @upmississippi.bsky.social is accepting preorders.

What will a second Trump term mean for public education? In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and I talk with Sophia Rodriguez, Jon Valant, Mimi Arnold Lyon, Derek Black, and Ben Justice.

When plural, it is "Reviewers 2," like attorneys general, right?

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Eeeek there is an official release date for the audiobook version of Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America! February! I am a pretty obsessive audiobook fan myself, and am excited for the book to reach people this way. @uchicagopress.bsky.social rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Hey friends! Come see me at the Religious Communication Association conference tomorrow! I’ll be talking about rhetorics of exclusion in the last 8 years of National Prayer Breakfasts & the role of religion in the presidential election. #rca24 #nca24 #teamrhetoric

The August issue of *History of Education Quarterly* is finally out (after some delays from Cambridge University Press). Our focus in this issue is higher education. In this thread, I'll provide free access to all articles. 1/n

Smooshing Pumpkins

My department is hiring a lecturer position for a scholar who can teach interpersonal, digital, and organizational communication. Most of the teaching will happen at our campus in Frisco. If you’d like to know more, I’m happy to share details and answer questions.

Working on the book and today I have to cite Diane Ravitch’s blog, which is entitled “Diane Ravitch’s Blog.” I look forward to explaining this to a copy editor one day.

Taken during 49.9 seconds of totality in my backyard.

From an interview about political discussions: “A coffee shop conversation in Frisco is not going to decide an election, but it might decide the relationship with the person you’re talking to. And the person you’re talking to is probably more important to your life than Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”

Big news for people who like to listen to other people read books to them! GUN COUNTRY launches on audiobook tomorrow! a.co/d/aRyzghc

We're hiring! University of North Texas job for a TT assistant professor in Texas or Texas/Southwestern Borderlands history. jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/78073 Please share with anyone who might be a good fit!

23 Myths about the History of American Schools: You can ask your library to pre-order! (Royalties go to U.S. History of Ed Society) www.tcpress.com/23-myths-abo... Expected publication date: April 2024 ISBN 978-0-8077-6926-3 (paper) ISBN 978-0-8077-6927-0 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8077-8217-0 (ebook)

What if universities are having civil, nuanced discussions of events in Israel and Gaza, but they are happening in classrooms, office hours, and dorms, not out in the public view of lazy reporters and not in a way that fits the narrative people want to tell?

New @haveyouheard.bsky.social heads to Houston investigate the politics of a state takeover. Spoiler: what may seem like two completely contradictory directions in TX education policy really aren't on.soundcloud.com/QfHJU

Oklahoma is moving forward with its unconstitutional religious public charter school. Kudos to the school board chairman for refusing to sign off on this illegal and unconstitutional move. kfor.com/news/local/s...

Dad to besmocked 6-year-old wearing safety glasses: “Are you going to be a scientist when you grow up?” 6-year-old to Dad: “I don’t know the future.”

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