I’m so pleased to announce that Basic Books is publishing a new, updated version of “The New Education” (2017), in paper, with a new Introduction. The new version–with its bold new cover–also includes an… Read more »
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In a recent post on HASTAC.org, published on May 11, 2020, which has since received over 37,000 views, Cathy N. Davidson writes, “Trauma is not an add on. From everything we know about learning,… Read more »
I had to capture this moment on Amazon: “#1 Bestseller in Education Policy and Reform.” One year away from publication, it is astonishing to be a “bestseller.” The whole purpose in writing this… Read more »
NB: The topic of this reblog is the recent trend in higher education to insist high costs are the result of higher education’s “insatiability” or “inefficiency” or “overreaching” and it must solve the… Read more »
It has been a tremendous honor this year to talk with a few dozen presidents of colleges and universities who have contacted me, inspired by the ideas in The New Education. Imagine my… Read more »
________ This week I was hosted for two splendid days at the University of California at Santa Cruz by Professor Jody Greene, Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. I met so… Read more »
In the huge and impressive rotunda of Low Library, filled to capacity with SRO even after extra chairs were brought in, I admit I look a little like Sampson about to push… Read more »
For well over a decade, I’ve been studying the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory, and studies of pedagogy as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having… Read more »
The New Education came out three months ago. Thanks to all of you, it has been an inspiring three months. I now know the answer to the key question: can higher education change? … Read more »
At dinner last night, a dear friend who has read The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, said, “I loved the book–but it really… Read more »