School desegregation is taken up in this two-part podcast through an examination of one school district’s...
“The Problem We All Live With” podcast
Topics/Themes: Progressive education/Free schools, School choice
This podcast examines cases of people around the world living “off the grid”...
“American Limbo” podcast
Topics/Themes: Indoctrination, Progressive education/Free schools
This podcast follows the story of John Corcoran, a man who graduated from high school...
“The Teacher Who Couldn’t Read” podcast
Topics/Themes: Disability/Ability Studies
This two-part podcast takes up the question: Is blindness a social construction?
“How to Become a Batman” podcast
Topics/Themes: Disability/Ability Studies, Progressive education/Free schools
This podcast discusses the widespread problem of undiagnosed dyslexia in U.S. public schools...
“Hard to read: How American schools fail kids with dyslexia” podcast
Topics/Themes: Disability/Ability Studies
This podcast examines the case of a girl who was raised “off the grid” and homeschooled for most of her life...
"The Girl Who Doesn’t Exist" podcast
Topics/Themes: Autonomy, Homeschooling
Through a prologue and three acts, cases in which children are given opportunities to govern are explored.
"Kid Politics" podcast
Topics/Themes: Indoctrination, Progressive education/Free schools, Democratic education
This podcast follows the story of a local political battle in the East Ramapo school district...
"A Not-So-Simple Majority" podcast
Topics/Themes: Democratic education
May 11-12th 2020 University of Warwick Many parents struggle to cope with the simultaneous demands of parenting and of paid employment. The upshot is that vast numbers are left poor in terms of both disposable income and free time. Moreover,…
Speaker Harry Brighouse Mildred Fish Harnack Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00-6:30 p.m. Memorial Union—Check TITU 800 Langdon St. The past 3 decades have seen a massive expansion in…
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture Series Speaker Jennifer Morton Associate Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York and the Graduate Center—CUNY, Fellow with the Center for Ethics and Education Monday, April 15, 2019 Noon-1:00 p.m. Room 259 Educational Sciences…