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Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Carleton College. He teaches courses on past and present educational policy and school reform movements. His writing has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, and the New Republic, among other publications. He is the author of the book Making Black History: Race, Culture, and the Color Line in the Age of Jim Crow. 

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Higher Education in the Age of Coronavirus

Besides overturning the very structure of higher education virtually overnight, COVID-19 will also accelerate a number of troubling longer-term trends.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Class & Inequality

We Don’t Need No Education?

A controversial new book highlights the dire straits of the U.S. education system, but offers misguided and irresponsible ideas for fixing it.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Forum Response

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder responds to Danielle Allen

Vocational training reinforces economic and racial inequalities.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Class & Inequality

What SAT Critics Miss

Lani Guinier's The Tyranny of Meritocracy.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Class & Inequality

Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

Public School Advantage argues that market-based strategies are counterproductive.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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