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Exploring the History of American Public Education - One Topic at a Time

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    Episode 10 – Accidental Activists

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2016


      In Season 2, we’re going to focus more on connecting the past to the present. In this episode, we take our first look at teachers as activists and look at 3 accidental activists, Oliver Brown, John… More

    Episode 9 – Dress Codes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2016


    Few things in education are as messy as the issue of dress codes. In this episode, we look at Indian schools that forced indigenous children to cut their hair and wear certain clothes, the evolution… More

    Episode 8 – School Reform

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2016


    It’s likely that about ten minutes after the first class was taught in the first schoolhouse in America, someone had advice or ideas how how it could be made better, fixed, or reformed. This week,… More

    Episode 7 -Grades AKA Shorthand for Learning

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2016


    Candidates for government jobs in 1540 China wait to hear their scores  (Source) “It is within the last decade that serious attention has been paid to such queries as: What should the mark really represent?… More

    Episode 6 – Vacation (All I Ever Wanted)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2016


    Light, short, and sweet. Just like summer vacation, today’s episode is focused on the question: Why does public education abandon children for two months in the summer, leaving them to their own devices? (Or as a young… More

    Episode 5 – Anna Cooper and Carnegie Unit

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2016


    This week we go through the last requirement of high school graduation in America: the credit unit. We connect the amazing Anna Julia Cooper, explore the just as important but less well know Committee of… More

    Episode 4 – For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016


    During our first brainstorming session, the nature of high school – bells, schedules, class periods – came up and I put them on the “if we run out of topics” list. While doing some other… More

    Episode 3 – The New York State Regents

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2016


    A momentary bright light in his high school experience, Paul didn’t hate the Regents exams. In today’s episode, we indulge all of Jennifer’s odd quirks related to semantics and get very, very New York-centric. Related… More

    Episode 2 – Graduation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2016


        Ahh… the sweet, sweet freedom that is high school graduation. Or at least for Paul it was. In this episode we try to figure out when and how 17 became the year teenagers… More

    Episode 1 – Compulsory Ed

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2016


      In our first episode, we explore the history of compulsory education in America. We look at the first group of students who were compelled to learn particular things, the ideas and decrees that led to towns being… More

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