On this new episode of HFTF, Penn State University English professor John Marsh discusses his new book, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality. Marsh’s study asks some uncomfortable questions about the limits of education as a tool for eliminating inequality and poverty in the United States. On the [...]
Last month, the results of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) revealed that only 20% of fourth graders, 17% of eighth graders, and 12% of twelfth graders in the U.S. demonstrated proficiency in American history. These results make history American students’ worst subject. Click here for the New York Times article on the test. [...]
This week on History for the Future, I interviewed Heather Steffen on the structure of the labor force at American universities. We discussed the increasing use of the casual labor of adjunct teachers, the crisis in the tenure system, and highly exploitative world of student internships. Steffen pointed to the ways that recent changes in [...]