Last updated April 2019 I have contributed over 1100 print-equivalent pages of content to Wikipedia and the public domain since 2013. My current projects include:
more Centuries of Childhood (1960), Philippe Ariès's best-known history of childhood, known for its now-refuted argument that the concept of "childhood" is a modern development • Medieval Children (2001), history of English children throughout the Middle Ages, directly refutes Ariès's thesis • Education for Extinction (1995) • The Elusive Ideal • The Emergence of the American University • The End of College • Excellent Sheep • Huck's Raft • The Importance of Being Little • The Modern School Movement (book) • Official Knowledge • The Strike That Changed New York, on the Oceanhill-Brownsville strike • The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Rancière on the role of the teacher and individual towards individual liberation • The Hemlock Cup • The Golden Passport • The Transformation of the School • Tinkering toward Utopia • An Elusive Science • The End of American Childhood • The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935
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more Absolver (2017) • Alto's Adventure (2015) • Blek (2013) • Nidhogg (2014) ( dev, sequel) • Secrets of Rætikon (2014) • Rymdkapsel (2013) • SpellTower (2013) by Zach Gage • Thralled • TowerFall (2013) • Vainglory (2014) • Windosill (2009)
education Every Student Succeeds Act, American national public education policy since 2015 • National Council on Teacher Quality, a D.C. think tank that lambasted American teacher prep programs in a 2013 report • Progressive Education Association, group dedicated to the spread of progressive education in American public schools (1919–1955) • Henry Caldwell Cook, British educator whose 1917 magnum opus The Play Way contended that youth study through play • Alice Davis Menken, known for work with female Jewish immigrant juvenile delinquency • Algo Henderson, president of Antioch College credited with their model of shared governance • History of Education Society, professional organization for American historians of education, founded in 1960 • Carl Kaestle, historian of education, author of Pillars of the Republic, the standard-bearer history of America's common schools • Herbartianism, educational movement based on German educator Johann Friedrich Herbart's philosophy, influential on American school pedagogy in the late 1800s • Lorenzo Luzuriaga, brought John Dewey to Argentina • John Davis Pierce, America's first state (Michigan's) superintendent of public schools • Arnold Ross, mathematician who founded a noted number theory summer program for talented high school students, one of my first subjects • Indian school chain Shemrock and Shemford • University of Wisconsin Experimental College, Meiklejohn's great books program in the late 1920s • its critic, administrator George Sellery • its supporter, Wisconsin president (1925–1937) Glenn Frank • John Hanson Twombly, Wisconsin president (1871–1874) and co-ed advocate • Teaching Assistants Association, Wisconsin's graduate student labor union, nation's first • Helen C. White, Wisconsin English prof and first woman to lead the AAUP • Sifting and winnowing, metaphor for the academic pursuit of truth at Wisconsin • Sara Goldrick-Rab, sociologist of education • new Yale residential colleges, Franklin and Murray art Artsy • Cheryl Donegan, American conceptual and video artist • Quentin Jones • Marta Kuzma • Christine Macel • Met Breuer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new modern art gallery • Cai Guo-Qiang § Gehry house • Adrian Piper, American conceptual artist • Punta della Dogana, Venetian contemporary art museum • Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, major Latin American art show in Southern California, 2017–2018 • books Better Living Through Criticism, The Craftsmanintellectual history Age of Fracture • The Age of the Crisis of Man • American Nietzsche • Backroads Pragmatists • The Black Atlantic • Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer • Forgotten Prophet • History's Memory • I Am Dynamite! • Georg Iggers • Late Modernism (book) • No Place of Grace • Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess • Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer • This Long Pursuit • Word by Word • A World Not to Come • internet
lit Di Yunge, the first major literary movement of Yiddish poets in America (early 20th c.) • Estadio Chile (poem) (also the poet's wife, Joan Jara) • My Struggle (Knausgård novels) music
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