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- On WAMC (Albany, NY)’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, listen to In Search of Deeper Learning coauthors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine discuss what the most engaging high schools do right, how U.S. public schools could change to better serve their students, and the future of Common Core curriculum standards.
- Sarah Milov’s forthcoming The Cigarette: A Political History was the uncredited basis for a WBUR (Boston, MA) Here & Now feature on America’s complex relationship with tobacco; at the Virginia Humanities–sponsored podcast BackStory, the hosts who omitted reference to Milov apologized and engaged with her in a broadly scoped, unedited conversation about the role of historians in popular media—the unique perspectives they bring, and what is owed them in return.
- In the New York Times, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius author Neil Maher detailed the 1960s and ’70s populist criticism of the U.S. space program—and how, over the long-term, such criticism eroded government support and led to increasingly privatized space exploration.
- At the Washington Post, Rebecca Spang, author of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution, warned Americans of the deleterious French experience with gerrymandering.
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