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Re: Teaching
by Human Restoration Project
Welcome to Re: Teaching, a podcast from the Human Restoration Project focused on education research and topics in progressive education. You can find the Human Restoration Project on the web at humanrestorationproject.org and on twitter @HumResPro, You can also find Chris McNutt @McNuttGISA, and myself @CovingtonAHS. Let’s restore humanity together.
Episodes
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S1:E11 - Drop the College Board
"It’s clear that the College Board is not only grossly overfunded and a waste of money, bordering on corruption, but a completely unethical, inequitable, and useless indicator of college preparedness. It’s a gatekeeper to higher education with no real purpose, and its use in schools limits the...
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S1:E10 - School and the "Wicked" World of David Epstein's "Range"
"Does our preparation for students in the 'kind' world of school really prepare them for life outside its walls or does it prove counterproductive, or even maladaptive, when the rules change and those hours of training fail to transfer? And to what extent does this 'kind'/'wicked' framing help us...
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S1:E9 - Simplification: School Policies and Practices to End During COVID-19
"What do teachers need to know to help navigate these confusing and chaotic weeks away from students as we settle into closures and social distancing as a new normal? And, sidelined by forces far outside of our control, how can those of us used to taking the lead in helping students in crisis...
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S1:E8 - Why Should Educators Care About "White Rage"?
"As we shift our understanding from racism and white supremacy as an “individual aberration” expressed through outright violence and open discrimination — viral videos of police shootings or Civil Rights-era images of dogs used against nonviolent protesters — to something “systemic…
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S1:E7 - Why "What Works" Won't Work and Why "What Works" May Hurt
What do fields like medicine, physics, agriculture, and education have in common? In this episode of Re:Teaching, I’ll unpack the criticisms and limits of “what works” in what we call evidence-based educational research and practice and try to understand why, in the words of Dutch researcher Gert...
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S1:E6 - Double Header: "My Pragmatic Journey to Voice & Choice in the Classroom" and "Cutting Content to Make Room for Learning"
So today is a double header featuring the first two articles I ever wrote for the Human Restoration Project back in 2018. “My Pragmatic Journey to Voice and Choice in the Classroom” provides the introduction and context, while “Cutting Content to Make Room for Learning” gives the practical…
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S1:E5 - Chris McNutt & “Revisiting Disobedience Instruction as Classroom Structural Change”
This is an audio recording of an article published on December 20th, 2019 titled “Revisiting Disobedience Instruction as Classroom Structural Change”, read with permission from the author, Chris McNutt. You can find this article on our website and as part of Next Gen Learning’s series “Why…
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S1:E4 - What's in a Grade? GRExit, GPAs, Test Blind Admissions, and the Mastery Transcript, oh my!
In this episode of Re: Teaching I’ll look at the movement of undergrad and graduate programs away from standardized assessments, unpack new research into our assumptions about standardized test scores as predictors of college completion, and challenge listeners to re-rethink “What’s in a grade?”...
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S1:E3 - "The Case for Constructivist Classrooms"
This is an audio recording of an article published on January 30, 2020 to our Medium page by me, Nick Covington titled "The Case for Constructivist Classrooms", you can read the full article and find more by our other contributors at our Medium page by clicking the link in our show notes. The…
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S1:E2 - Yong Zhao's "Two decades of havoc: A synthesis of criticism against PISA"
“First, there is no evidence to justify, let alone prove, the claim that PISA indeed measures skills that are essential for life in modern economies. Second, the claim is an imposition of a monolithic and West-centric view of societies on the rest of the world. Third, the claim distorts the…
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S1:E1 - A Progressive Response to "Ed. Reform's Lost Decade"
This is an audio recording of an article published on January 30, 2020 to our Medium page by me, Nick Covington titled “A Progressive Response to Ed Reforms Lost Decade”, you can read the full article and find more by our other contributors at our Medium page by clicking the link in our show…
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Welcome to Re: Teaching
Thanks for listening to the trailer for Re: Teaching, a new podcast from the Human Restoration Project. Re: Teaching is a short weekly podcast focused on education research & topics in progressive education. You can find the Human Restoration Project on the web at humanrestorationproject.org and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Re: Teaching, a podcast from the Human Restoration Project focused on education research and topics in progressive education. You can find the Human Restoration Project on the web at humanrestorationproject.org and on twitter @HumResPro, You can also find Chris McNutt @McNuttGISA, and myself @CovingtonAHS. Let’s restore humanity together.
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