Academic Publications

Articles

2026 Max Jacobs. “New Ways of Seeing: A Response to Tyack,” Pedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (under review).

2026 Max Jacobs. “Dwelling with Middle Schoolers on Race and Racism in US History,” childhood & philosophy (in press).

2023 Max Jacobs. “The Case for Preparation: How and Why Teachers Should Learn to Teach Controversial Issues,” Educational Abundance: Journal of New York State Foundations of Education Association, 3 (2023) 62-68.

2023 Max Jacobs. “50 Years Ago, ‘Anti-woke’ Crusaders Came for My Grandfather,” Teaching Social Studies, 23, no. 2 (2023).
• Reprinted from History News Network

Book Chapters

2026 Max Jacobs, Ashley Y. Lipscomb, Jennifer Jones-Damis, Tauheedah Hill, Xenia Cox, Jecrois Jean-Baptiste, and Benjamin Justice. “Promoting Trauma-informed Teaching and Learning for Incarcerated Youth Through an Action Research Model,” in Adeela Ahmed Shafi, Stephen Case, Neal Hazel, & Hope Kent (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Education in Custodial and Youth Justice Settings (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2026).

Reviews

2026 Review of Christine Ogren, Summers off?:A History of U.S. Teachers’ Other Three Months. Rutgers University Press, for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 63:9 (May, 2026).

2025 “Larry Cuban. The Enduring Classroom: Teaching Then and Now Chicago: University of Chicago. 2023. 119 Pp.” History of Education Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2025): 127–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/heq.2024.55.

2023 “Making a Mass Institution: Indianapolis and the American High School: By Kyle Steele, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2020, 206 Pages, $36.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9781978814394.” Educational Review 76 (6): 1744. doi:10.1080/00131911.2023.2277085.

2023 “Review of Jakubowski, C.T. (2021) A Cog in the Machine: Creating Your Own Story!” Educational Abundance: Journal of New York State Foundations of Education Association 3, (2023): 129-30.

Blogs

2022 “Hybrid Pedagogy, World-Centered Education, and the Civil Rights Movement.” History of Education Quarterly Blog, 13 January, 2023, https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/01/13/hybrid-pedagogy-world-centered-education-and-the-civil-rights-movement-%EF%BF%BC/.

Media Publications

Editorials

2023 “50 Years Ago, ‘Anti-Woke’ Crusaders Came for My Grandfather.” History News Network, 15 January 2023, http://hnn.us/article/184750.

2022 “A Little ‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T’ Will Go a Long Way to Resolving the Teacher Shortage.” The Star-Ledger, 12 September, 2022, https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/09/educator-a-little-r-e-s-p-e-c-t-will-go-a-long-way-to-resolving-the-teacher-shortage-opinion.html

2022 “America’s Boys Are in Serious Trouble. Schools Can Help.” Education Week, 2 May, 2022, https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-americas-boys-are-in-serious-trouble-schools-can-help/2022/05.

2021 “First Lady Jill Biden Can Help Teachers.” Newsweek, 1 July 2021, https://www.newsweek.com/first-lady-jill-biden-can-help-teachers-opinion-1605765.

Podcasts

2025 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2025, February 11). Adam Laats “Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform That Created America’s Public Schools” (John Hopkins University Press, 2024) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/mr-lancasters-system

2024 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2024, December 4). Matthew Gardner Kelly “Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity” (Cornell University Press, 2024) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/dividing-the-public

2024 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2024, June 30). Bayley J. Marquez “Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space” (U California Press, 2024) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/plantation-pedagogy

2024 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2024, June 5). Nicholas Tampio (editor) “Democracy and Education” (Columbia UP, 2024) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/democracy-and-education

2024 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2024, February 17). Mirelsie Velazquez “Puerto Rico Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977” (Illinois UP, 2022) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/puerto-rican-chicago.

2023 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2023, October 22). Campbell F. Scribner, “A is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education” (Cornell UP, 2023) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-is-for-arson.

2023 Jacobs, M. (Host). (2023, September 22). Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, “Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)” (Harvard UP, 2023) [Audio podcast episode]. In New Books in Education. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/off-the-mark.