Education, Academia

Last update: 10 Aug 2026 11:02
First version: Before 13 March 1995

I'm quite aware that the two are by no means synonymous.

Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett and Marie K. Norman, How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
John Bound and Gary Solon, "Double trouble: on the value of twins-based estimation of the return to schooling", Economics of Education Review 18 (1999): 169--182 [Preprint: ssrn/226374]
Douglas B. Downey, How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism
Malcolm Gladwell, "Examined Life," New Yorker 17 Dec. 2001 [online]
Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays [Esp. the last two essays. Review: Haack Philosophy, or, Pseudodoxia Epidemica Academicæ]
Richard F. Hamilton, The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
Shin-Kap Han, "Tribal regimes in academia: a comparative analysis of market structure across disciplines", Social Networks 25 (2003): 251--280
E. D. Hirsch
- "Classroom Research and Cargo Cults," Policy Review 115 (October 2002) [Online]
- Cultural Literacy
- The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them
Russell Jacoby, Dogmatic Wisdom
G. E. R. Lloyd, Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation
Susanne Lohmann, "Darwinian Medicine for the University" [PDF. Drawn from her book-in-progress, How Universities Think]
John McGowan, Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
Alexander Star (ed.), Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Information and Organizations
Philip B. Stark and Richard Freishtat, "An Evaluation of Course Evaluations" [PDF preprint via Prof. Stark]

Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time

CRS, "The Domestication of the Savage Mind", American Scientist 97:3 (May-June 2009): 244 [expanded version]

Paul R. Abramson, Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
Clifford Adelman, Tourists in Our Own Land [The awful truth about what American undergraduates actually study]
Charles W. Anderson, Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason
Michael W. Apple, Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality
James L. Axtell, Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
Ken Bain [I hope he collected a matched sample of bad, or at least less-than-ideal, teachers and students before writing these]
- What the Best College Teachers Do
- What the Best College Students Do
Benjamin Barber, An Aristocracy of Everyone
Jacques Barzun, Begin Here
William J. Baumol, The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
Christopher Bjork, High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
Derek Bok
- Higher Education in America
- Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More
- Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
William G. Bowen, Derek Bok et al., The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos and Michael S. McPherson, Crossing the Finish Line; Completing College at America's Public Universities
David Bromwich, Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking (1992) [2022 interview with Bromwich]
Caplow and McGee, The Academic Marketplace
Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney, Douglas S. Massey, Gniesha Dinwiddie and Brooke Cunningham, Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Burton R. Clark, Places of Inquiry: Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities
William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
Raffaella Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Larry Cuban, The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses
Sherman Dorn, Accountability Frankenstein [Author's blurb]
James J. Duderstadt and Farris W. Womack, The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
Kieran Egan, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
Susan Engel, The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood
Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford with Chang Young Chung, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life
Michael Faia, The Character of Our Content: Satirical Inquiries into the Higher Learning [Online via Prof. Faia's homepage]
Harold Fromm, Academic Capitalism
James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Edie N. Goldenberg and John G. Cross, Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education (2009)
Mark Gradstein, Moshe Jutman and Volker Meier, The Political Economy of Education: Implications for Growth and Inequality ["a theoretical framework for analyzing the complex relationship of education, growth, and income distribution"]
Gerlad Graff, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson, The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling
Kevin D. Haggerty and Aaron Doyle, 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School: Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students
Kaye Haw, Educating Muslim Girls: Shifting Discourses
James Hynes, Publish and Perish
Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University
James T. Kinard and Alex Kozulin, Rigorous Mathematical Thinking: Conceptual Formation in the Mathematics Classroom
William C. Kirby, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
Philip Kitcher, The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education
Stephen Kosack, The Education of Nations: How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy, Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education
David F. Labaree
- A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
- How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education
Ellen C. Lagemann, Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research
Franco Landriscina, Simulation and Learning: A Model-Centered Approach
Meira Levinson, The Demands of Liberal Education
Douglas S. Massey, Camille Z. Charles, Garvey F. Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer, The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
Donald L. McCabe, Kenneth D. Butterfield and Linda K. Treviño, Cheating in College: Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It
Kate McGilly, Classroom Lessons: Integrative Cognitive Theory and Classroom Practice
John W. Meyer, "The Effects of Education as an Institution", American Journal of Sociology 83 (1977): 55--77 [JSTOR]
"Rebekah Nathan", My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student ["An anthropology teacher at a large university tells what happens when, after 15 years of teaching, she decides to do what anthropologists do when confused by a different culture (in this case, her students): she enrolls as a freshman, moves into the dorm, and takes a full load of courses."]
National Research Council, Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
Douglas D. Noble, The Classroom Arsenal: Military Research, Information Technology, and Public Education
George Dennis O'Brien, All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education
David R. Olson, Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society
Robert O'Neil, Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University
Jan L. Plass, Roxana Moreno and Roland Brünken (eds.), Cognitive Load Theory
Sean F. Reardon, Demetra Kalogrides, and Kenneth Shores, "The Geography of Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps", American Journal of Sociology 124 (2019): 1164--1221
Sarah Reckhow, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics
Frederick Reif, Applying Cognitive Science to Education: Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex Domains
Julie A. Reuben, The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
Deborah L. Rhode, >In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture
John E. Roemer, Democracy, Education, and Equality
Annalisa Sannino (ed.), Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory
Rosemary C. Saolomone, Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education
Julia Schleck, Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism [Review by J. W. Scott, with other books on academic freedom]
Joan Wallach Scott, Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
Edward Shils, The Calling of Education: "The Academic Ethic" and Other Essays on Higher Education
Murray Sperber, Beer and Circuses
Kurt VanLehn, Mind Bugs: The Origins of Procedural Misconceptions
Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Ugur Yildirim, David J. Harding, and Felix Elwert, "Are Neighborhood Effects Explained by Differences in School Quality?", American Journal of Sociology 128 (2023): 1472--1528
Rebecca Zwick, Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admission Tests in Higher Education