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Justin Grosslight

Book Review: Food for Thought, but Pie in the Sky: “Running with Robots — The American High School’s Third Century”

Running with Robots not only makes reading about education reform fun, but also prods a broad readership to think critically about how learning should work in a future guided by artificial intelligence.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: edtech, Greg Toppo, Jim Tracy, MIT Press, Robots, Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century

Book Review: Humanizing Our Youth — “Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age”

Throughout, Gen Z, Explained does its best to help readers relate to its protagonists by placing them in Gen Z’s shoes.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Digital Age, Gen Z, Justin Grosslight, The Art of Living in a Digital Age

Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”

Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Faisal Z. Ahmed, In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century, Indonesia, Justin Grosslight, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sebastian Strangio, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Book Review: A Profound Meditation — “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”

Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Francis Su, Justin Grosslight, Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Book Review: So Much More than Spirituality — “Bouquet of White Roses”

Those readers who embrace spiritual adventure — reincarnation as a mode of family therapy — will be illuminated and entertained by this book.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bouquet of White Roses: Quest for Truth About Aunt Sue and Me, Enlighten Publishing, Lucy Costigan, reincarnation

Book Review: A Precarious Plenitude — “Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era”

In this beautifully written, shrewdly researched, and artfully argued book, Matthew Rafalow contends that how teachers understand and regulate their students digital know-how has profound consequences.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era, Matthew H. Rafalow.

Book Review: Up Close and Personal? — “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”

With journalistic flair, The Years That Matter Most brilliantly shows how, in terms of college opportunities, the scales of justice tilt in favor of the wealthy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: ACT, Admissions, College, College Board, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, How College Makes or Breaks Us, Justin Grosslight, Mobility, Paul Tough, SAT, The Years the Matter Most

Book Review: A Troubling yet Timely Screed — America’s Debilitating “Meritocracy Trap”

Though its prose veers into academic rough patches, the volume does what it sets out to do, brilliantly portraying how the delusive demon of meritocracy has led America into its current socioeconomic quagmire.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Daniel Markovits, Meritocracy, The Meritocracy Trap

Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology

Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Belt and Road, China, Globalism, Justin Grosslight, Singapore, The Future is Asian: Commerce Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century

Book Review: More than Meets the Eye — “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge”

Readers interested in early modern science, Renaissance studies, or Galileo will undoubtedly savor this trailblazing work of history.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Galileo Galilei, Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge, Gianfrancesco Sagredo, history of science, Renaissance, University of Chicago

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