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A book holds a

house of gold:

“The New Education is an inspiring, well-researched, and compelling
manifesto for a revolution in learning and teaching. It is a book for everyone
who wants to understand why and how universities need to be reimagined
for the 21st century—those who have been “educated” and those who aspire
to be. It is the most important book I have read in many years.”
In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson reveals that we desperately need
a revolution in higher learning if we want our students to succeed in our
age of precarious work and technological disruption. Journeying from elite
private schools to massive public universities to innovative community
colleges, she profiles iconoclastic educators who are remaking their
classrooms by emphasizing creativity, collaboration, and adaptability over
expertise in a single, often abstract discipline. Working at the margins of
the establishment, these innovators are breaking down barriers between
ossified fields of study, presenting their students with multidisciplinary, real-
world problems, and teaching them not just how to think, but how to learn.
The New Education ultimately shows how we can educate students not only
to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come.

“In a book that is both inspirational and deeply practical, Davidson and
Katopodis offer classroom instructors all the tools they need to transform
traditional classrooms into learning environments that engage and empower
twenty-first-century students. Grounded in cognitive science and classroom-
tested examples from across the globe, The New College Classroom belongs
in the hands of any educator—regardless of academic discipline—truly
interested in changing students’ lives with effective teaching.”

Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together
in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

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