education

Interviews

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers - 8 March 2024

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....

Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023

At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...

Interviews

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 November 2021

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....

Reviews

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Adèle Momméja & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 October 2021

What are the objective and intimate conditions for the social ascension of the children of immigrants? And what...

Essays

Teacher Unionism and the Bargain for the Common Good

Claire Cahen - 6 July 2021

Rank-and-file teachers across the United States challenge their unions to embrace social democratic ideals, and...

Reviews

Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Ryan M. Good - 17 December 2019

Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...

Reviews

Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s Navigating Conflict

Andrés Besserer Rayas - 8 October 2019

Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...

Interviews

Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez

Lisa Jean Moore - 22 January 2019

An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...

Essays

The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France

Mathieu Ichou & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 July 2018

How can the attainment gap between children of immigrants and children of native-born parents be explained? While...

From the Field

The Everyday Activism of Chicago’s Public High-School Football Coaches

Lawrence Johnson - 13 March 2018

For several generations, high-school football programs have been an important part of the social fabric in...

From the Field

Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas

James Orr & Ofronama Biu - 10 October 2017

Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets....

From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...

From the Field

“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”

C. Ray Borck - 3 May 2016

Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...

From the Field

Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate

Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 April 2016

The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...

Debates

Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out

Nichola Lowe - 15 December 2015

In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...

Essays

What we can learn from babies’ sociability

Carole Gayet-Viaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 October 2015

The sociability of very young children reveals a neglected dimension of relations and interactions in public, and...

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Where are the Women Architects?

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Teacher Unionism and the Bargain for the Common Good

Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s Navigating Conflict

Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez

The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France

The Everyday Activism of Chicago’s Public High-School Football Coaches

Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”

Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate

Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out

What we can learn from babies’ sociability

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