Tag: Richard Lachmann

Richard Lachmann featured on The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jan 7, 2015

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Academic Minute

in Academic Minute, The Best of Our Knowledge

As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education. For this week‘s edition (#1268), Bob has selected…
Richard Lachmann, University at Albany – The Tonality of Textbooks

Dec 18, 2014

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in Education, History, Linguistics, Media, Sociology

The tone of a written passage can fully influence how it is comprehended. Dr. Richard Lachmann, a political sociologist at The University at Albany (SUNY), is studying the shifting tonality of textbooks especially in their treatment of war. Richard Lachmann (Ph.D. Harvard 1983) is professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of…