Mark Hlavacik
@schoolfuss.bsky.social
A communication professor who studies arguments about schools.
www.hlavacik.net
https://tinyurl.com/WillingWarriors
www.hlavacik.net
https://tinyurl.com/WillingWarriors
I wrote a piece for @chronicle.com about the problem of public cynicism toward higher education. It recounts a very special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. You can read more about it in Willing Warriors, out December 2nd with @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion | The Roots of the Public’s Cynicism About Higher Ed
In the ’80s, Allan Bloom taught America to be suspicious of academe.
www.chronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I wrote a piece for @chronicle.com about the problem of public cynicism toward higher education. It recounts a very special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. You can read more about it in Willing Warriors, out December 2nd with @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
The good folks @uchicagopress.bsky.social sent me an advanced copy of Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars. I'm thrilled to hold it and you can too this December! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The good folks @uchicagopress.bsky.social sent me an advanced copy of Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars. I'm thrilled to hold it and you can too this December! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department:
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careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...
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Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Environmental History in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History
Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History as a ...
careers.historians.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department:
careers.historians.org/jobs/2167991...
careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...
careers.historians.org/jobs/2167991...
careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...
Look what I got in the mail yesterday! @msteudeman.bsky.social’s excellent new book from @upmississippi.bsky.social about the role of feeling in Reconstruction Era education reforms.
If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h
If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Look what I got in the mail yesterday! @msteudeman.bsky.social’s excellent new book from @upmississippi.bsky.social about the role of feeling in Reconstruction Era education reforms.
If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h
If you’re feeling jealous, you can get your own copy here: lnkd.in/gJxWTA8h
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If you have ever wondered why people so regularly destroy American schools, the answer just got a little more affordable!
Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A Is for Arson by Campbell F. Scribner | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
June 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
If you have ever wondered why people so regularly destroy American schools, the answer just got a little more affordable!
Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print now through Friday, June 27th.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Pre-Order at SUNY Press now available for "From a Whisper to a Movement Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest"
sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...
For inquiries direct message me here, email at jguitar@kean.edu, or email my coeditor, Alan Chu alanchu83@gmail.com
sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...
For inquiries direct message me here, email at jguitar@kean.edu, or email my coeditor, Alan Chu alanchu83@gmail.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Pre-Order at SUNY Press now available for "From a Whisper to a Movement Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest"
sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...
For inquiries direct message me here, email at jguitar@kean.edu, or email my coeditor, Alan Chu alanchu83@gmail.com
sunypress.edu/Books/F/From...
For inquiries direct message me here, email at jguitar@kean.edu, or email my coeditor, Alan Chu alanchu83@gmail.com
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New pub in @trseeditor.bsky.social with @schoolfuss.bsky.social.
We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims.
Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5
We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims.
Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5
May 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New pub in @trseeditor.bsky.social with @schoolfuss.bsky.social.
We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims.
Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5
We analyzed 311 IDM lessons and identified 3 types—civic, personal, and seminar-style. Only civic inquiry fully aligns with the C3 Framework’s civic aims.
Limited free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4ZEAA... 1/5
I was thrilled to see Willing Warriors listed right in the middle of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social forthcoming list at #AERA2025. If you’ve been thinking about that email asking conference attendees to refrain from recording each other without permission, Chapter 3 has a story for you!
April 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I was thrilled to see Willing Warriors listed right in the middle of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social forthcoming list at #AERA2025. If you’ve been thinking about that email asking conference attendees to refrain from recording each other without permission, Chapter 3 has a story for you!
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Happy Friday! (Trying to bring positivity to the end of week)
"Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby
"Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby
April 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Happy Friday! (Trying to bring positivity to the end of week)
"Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby
"Redbone" - Childish Gambino #QuarantineHobby
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“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
April 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
Some personal news--After 10 years at UNT working with the kindest colleagues and coolest students on the planet, I have accepted a new position a little ways down the road at Texas A&M. It is hard to leave Denton, but I am excited to start a new a chapter in College Station.
April 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Some personal news--After 10 years at UNT working with the kindest colleagues and coolest students on the planet, I have accepted a new position a little ways down the road at Texas A&M. It is hard to leave Denton, but I am excited to start a new a chapter in College Station.
The University of Chicago Press put up a webpage for Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars! It comes out December 2nd, but pre-orders are available now if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping. ;-)
Willing Warriors
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to address complaints about its libraries. Like so many...
press.uchicago.edu
March 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The University of Chicago Press put up a webpage for Willing Warriors, my new book about the education culture wars! It comes out December 2nd, but pre-orders are available now if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping. ;-)
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So my book was "briefly noted" in The New Yorker. feeling totally normal about this, not jumping up and down at all. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short reviews of recent releases.
www.newyorker.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
So my book was "briefly noted" in The New Yorker. feeling totally normal about this, not jumping up and down at all. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Have "the culture wars" (re sex, religion, patriotism, testing, etc) come to YOUR public K-12 school?
I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc.
DM/comment if you!
I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc.
DM/comment if you!
December 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Have "the culture wars" (re sex, religion, patriotism, testing, etc) come to YOUR public K-12 school?
I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc.
DM/comment if you!
I am eager to talk to students, teachers, parents, administrators, politicians, as well as others such as bus drivers, nurses, aides, paraprofessionals, cafeteria workers, etc.
DM/comment if you!
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The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. This thread has (open access or un-paywalled) links to all of the articles in it.
December 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM
The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is out. This thread has (open access or un-paywalled) links to all of the articles in it.
@rachellouisemoran.bsky.social got me this for my birthday. As if I, or anyone else who has ever finished The Power Broker, needs help working that fact into conversation.
December 10, 2024 at 12:55 PM
@rachellouisemoran.bsky.social got me this for my birthday. As if I, or anyone else who has ever finished The Power Broker, needs help working that fact into conversation.
@msteudeman.bsky.social's new book about the emergence of federal education policy after the Civil War comes out this summer! If there is a rhetoric or education scholar you have not checked off your holiday shopping list, it appears that @upmississippi.bsky.social is accepting preorders.
Absence of National Feeling
Before the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became...
www.upress.state.ms.us
December 9, 2024 at 8:16 PM
@msteudeman.bsky.social's new book about the emergence of federal education policy after the Civil War comes out this summer! If there is a rhetoric or education scholar you have not checked off your holiday shopping list, it appears that @upmississippi.bsky.social is accepting preorders.
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What will a second Trump term mean for public education? In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and I talk with Sophia Rodriguez, Jon Valant, Mimi Arnold Lyon, Derek Black, and Ben Justice.
#188 What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Public Education?
Donald Trump’s return to office is likely to have profound implications for the nation’s public schools. In this episode we start to grapple with five major policy areas that are likely to be impacted
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December 6, 2024 at 2:15 PM
What will a second Trump term mean for public education? In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and I talk with Sophia Rodriguez, Jon Valant, Mimi Arnold Lyon, Derek Black, and Ben Justice.
When plural, it is "Reviewers 2," like attorneys general, right?
December 5, 2024 at 2:55 PM
When plural, it is "Reviewers 2," like attorneys general, right?
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Eeeek there is an official release date for the audiobook version of Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America! February! I am a pretty obsessive audiobook fan myself, and am excited for the book to reach people this way. @uchicagopress.bsky.social rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
RBmedia | Blue
RBmedia is the largest audiobook publisher in the world. With more than 60,000 titles, our catalog is the largest collection of audiobooks in the industry.
rbmediaglobal.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Eeeek there is an official release date for the audiobook version of Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America! February! I am a pretty obsessive audiobook fan myself, and am excited for the book to reach people this way. @uchicagopress.bsky.social rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
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Hey friends! Come see me at the Religious Communication Association conference tomorrow! I’ll be talking about rhetorics of exclusion in the last 8 years of National Prayer Breakfasts & the role of religion in the presidential election. #rca24 #nca24 #teamrhetoric
November 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Hey friends! Come see me at the Religious Communication Association conference tomorrow! I’ll be talking about rhetorics of exclusion in the last 8 years of National Prayer Breakfasts & the role of religion in the presidential election. #rca24 #nca24 #teamrhetoric
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The August issue of *History of Education Quarterly* is finally out (after some delays from Cambridge University Press).
Our focus in this issue is higher education. In this thread, I'll provide free access to all articles.
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Our focus in this issue is higher education. In this thread, I'll provide free access to all articles.
1/n
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
The August issue of *History of Education Quarterly* is finally out (after some delays from Cambridge University Press).
Our focus in this issue is higher education. In this thread, I'll provide free access to all articles.
1/n
Our focus in this issue is higher education. In this thread, I'll provide free access to all articles.
1/n
Smooshing Pumpkins
make a band milder
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make a band milder
an adequate circle
an adequate circle
June 12, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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