Podcasts about Social studies

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, we're joined by J.B. Long, we go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play The Generation Gap.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, play Mock My World, and are joined by Bryce Drew.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and we play Mustache, Not a Mustache.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, give out Hardware, and are joined by Wolf and Luke for Crosstalk.

In this episode, Kelsie interviews Emily Glankler from Anti-Social studies about being a high school teacher in this day and age and her “ah ha” moments about the teaching of women and gender in school systems. As a native of Texas, Emily shares a bit about the state of things in Texas schools. What's new at RHP?RHP is hosting a Winter Institute in Boston this January 29-31.All RHP Teaching Resources can be found at https://www.remedialherstory.com/learn.html#/ Host: Kelsie Eckert and Brooke SullivanEditor: Tyler CardwellProducer: Haley Brook

Ralph welcomes distinguished educators Dr. Tina Ellsworth and Kelly McFarland Stratman of the National Council for the Social Studies to discuss how our democracy depends on our children learning the civic tools of social studies. Then, civic legend Lois Gibbs, who exposed the Love Canal toxic dump that was poisoning families in her area and then went on to found a national organization to help other ordinary people fight toxic exposure joins us to update us on her latest campaigns.Kelly Stratman is the Executive Director of National Council for the Social Studies. Ms. Stratman's career began in education, first teaching English to middle and high school students in Japan, and later as a classroom teacher for kindergarten and 4th grade in Ohio and Massachusetts. Currently, she serves as vice chair of AFS-USA, a nonprofit that promotes global citizenship and intercultural learning through international exchange.Dr. Tina Ellsworth is president of the National Council for the Social Studies. Dr. Ellsworth is currently an assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University. Dr. Ellsworth is also an assistant professor of social studies education at the University of Central Missouri. Her research interests center on history education, pedagogical content knowledge for teaching history, and teaching with primary sources. She is currently a co-writer and co-editor for a book on teaching with primary sources expected to be released in fall 2026.The emphasis at certain levels of education and government is on STEM, computer skills, learning about AI. And of course, these are just tools to use or misuse. They are taught by asking the question: how? And the social studies ask the question: why? Much more fundamental, much more portentous in order to make sure that these tools are wisely used—or, at times, not used at all.Ralph NaderI hardly remember my physics and chemistry courses. Why? Because they were sterile. For example, in the physics course, while we learned about equations, et cetera, we never applied physics to anything in the community. We never studied the weather, for example. In the chemistry course, we never studied the drinking water. We had two dirty rivers and a very clean reservoir up on a hill, and it was never part of it. It was just studying the periodic table.Ralph NaderThe important thing for us to realize is that these different subject areas in schools are not mutually exclusive. In order to do STEM well, you need social studies and need the ability to make good decisions. You need the ability to critically interrogate any kind of sources that you might be encountering and ultimately do things with your work to make the world a better place. That is all social studies skills that we're talking about. Helping kids to become critical thinkers, to really ask good questions I think is really important. And thinking about students more than just their future career, but really preparing students for this civic life too.Dr. Tina EllsworthTeachers right now are a little bit fearful about teaching anything that is focused on civics. They're uncertain about where the project could go when you give kids the agency to be able to do that, or how the community might respond with what students are doing. Sometimes members of the public may even say, “Oh, you're turning students into activists.” As if having students engage in their community to make it better is something that's bad. So I don't quite understand a lot of that vernacular that's being thrown around as having kids care about their community is a bad thing. So I think we need to do more to take charge of the narrative and to help better connect the parents and the people in the community with the school and with the kids to see how we can all do this better.Dr. Tina EllsworthWhen we think about how important our students are, how important education is, how that funding happens and where that funding happens—it is all at that local level. And so when we think about how we can get engaged and what we can do, just as everyday citizens, we can be those role models. Where we are getting engaged, where we are asking the questions ourselves of our communities, where we're taking those best practices that we learned in our social studies classes and we're putting them out there. And statistics show that when you take your child with you, when you go to vote at a very young age, that becomes a habit for them. So we're the models for our students, whether we're in the classroom, whether we're a parent, whether we're a neighbor, or just a member of the community, we need to be the advocates that we want to see happen.Kelly StratmanThis is why we are such strong advocates for this inquiry-based approach. Because it gives students the tools they need to navigate [technology], whether they're trying to pull apart things in the virtual space or in real life. These are important skillsets that they can use as they go forward—not just take things that are given to them and just walk away without questioning it, but really feeling empowered to stop and evaluate and have the tools at their disposal to be able to do a really thoughtful evaluation.Kelly StratmanLois Gibbs is the founder of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, a project of People's Action Institute. In 1978 she blew the whistle on Love Canal after learning her kindergartener's school was built on a toxic dump. Her work led to the creation of Superfund.[The central role of women in the environmental movement] is not dead yet, by the way. That movement is still alive and well. And they're participating in many other things that are happening today like the No Kings rallies…They're extraordinary people who learned how to fight this battle not from a book, not from television, but from the seat of their pants. And what was really clear in 1980 and is still clear to me today is that if the people decide that change is needed and they gather together and they organize around it, it doesn't matter whether Democrats or Republicans are in office. It doesn't matter who has power. They can create that change. And that's what we really need in this country.Lois GibbsWhen you think about the national policies that have been set around the environmental movement (the environmental health movement and the environmental movement), all of that came from grassroots efforts.Lois Gibbs[The philosophy we have] is not to build an office with 15 people and do a top-down kind of organizing, but build and train hubs of people all across the country to come together and fight locally. Because when the local people move, so will the Congress, so will corporate America. Because they have no choice. I mean, you saw what we did with Target. Oh my goodness. Target rolled over on everything. Disney rolled over on everything. Because when the people say “We're not playing this way anymore”, then the corporations and Congress will roll over.Lois Gibbs Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Mock My World.

This week Kevin and Tom catch up with a long-time friend and supporter of Top 20. Dr. Kasey Johnson started her educational journey 25 years ago and has enjoyed learning from her students and peers each step of the way. After teaching English, Music, Social Studies, and English Language Learners for students in K-12, Dr. Johnson started a new journey as chair of the Education department for Ottawa University. During that time, Dr. Johnson wrote and implemented multiple Master's degree programs, oversaw undergraduate and graduate programs and clinicals and enjoyed providing professional development for educators throughout the Kansas City and Phoenix areas. She is a published author, nationally recognized trainer, master teacher, and presenter. Currently, Dr. Johnson uses her educational skills and understanding of organizational management as a regional director of sales for Hotel Management and Consulting in Kansas City. Although not in the classroom, she finds many parallels between the helping and hospitality professions and enjoys assisting in training and supporting the amazing individuals currently managing the hotels throughout the Midwest. When she isn't working, Dr. Johnson enjoys traveling with her husband Matt and hearing about the adventures and accomplishments of her three amazing sons and beautiful daughter-in-law. If you have any questions, Dr. Johnson can be reached at smartermoms@gmail.com.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Mustache, Not a Mustache.

Kayleigh Johnson is from the small town of Douglas, Alabama, located within Marshall County. When she was twelve, she became involved with Lamplight as part of their very first group of campers. Throughout the years Kayleigh has become more involved with Lamplight and is now a staff member. Outside of Lamplight, Kayleigh is working towards her general business degree as a freshman at the University of Alabama, where she later hopes to continue on to law school. Kayleigh aspires to combine everything Lamplight and college will teach her, into a career as a non-profit lawyer who stands up for worker-owners everywhere. This aspiration stems from working with SMCEC and other non-profits in contact with SMCEC. One of her favorite memories from Lamplight was in her last year as a camper when her and two other campers plus one staff conspired to purchase the staircase and charge everyone a toll to use it during the real-world simulation experiment.Julia Machlin hails from Ithaca, the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, where she first developed a passion for student led education. After completing undergrad, she found herself toggling between working in education and the Labor Movement, including teaching Social Studies in East Harlem, and working with various workers centers, and SEIU in hopes to find a marriage between two worlds working towards student and worker empowerment. It wasn't until she found Lamplight and the work of the Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center (SMCEC) where she discovered a niche and intersection of people trying to solve similar problems. For the last four years, Julia has been a returning Lamplight Staff member, and now sits on the board of SMCEC. She is also one of the creators on Glow and Grow, a coopertivelt structured fundraising program that grants writes for burgeoning nonprofits in Alabama, and trains students to simultaneously be worker owners and grant writers. Some of her favorite SMCEC memories include getting Frank Hurricane to perform at the 2025 Brick and Barn Conference, and holding fundraisers in her friend's Brooklyn Bars. When she isn't in Alabama or Ithaca, Julia can be spotted in New York, completing her Masters in Education at Teachers College at Columbia University. She looks forward to a future of building worker power by way of empowering students in and out of the classroom.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, hand out Hardware, and Cross Talk with Wolf and Luke.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, are joined by Jags insider Mike DiRocco, go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, are joined by Erik Moses, and we play the Generation Gap.

With family gatherings upcoming over the holidays and emergence of AI everywhere we look, here's my 2011 episode with Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, about her book ALONE TOGETHER Why We Expect More from Technology, Less from Each Other. At that point, Sherry had already been studying the relationships between people and technology for decades, and ALONE TOGETHER signaled a bit of a departure for her. She even called it “a book of repentance.” It was one of the first books to warn about what was being threatened or lost in our headlong rush to 24/7 engagement with screens. 

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Mock My World.

Today on The Social Studies Show, we're exploring how culture, creativity, and commerce intersect to shape opportunity in music, sports, and advertising. Our guest, Olukoya Davis, has spent over 20 years building bridges between culture and commerce — helping artists, athletes, and brands tell stories that move people and markets. Currently, he is Senior Director of  West Coast Sales at Vevo, where he drives revenue and partnerships across CTV and digital platforms. Before that, he served as Vice President of Brand Partnerships at the NBPA, and held leadership roles at Roc Nation, Complex, NBC Sports, Disney, and Warner Bros. Beyond the boardroom, Olukoya helped grow Misha's Foods from a farmers market brand into major retail stores, and founded The Entersection Group — a strategy firm focused on authentic partnerships across culture, content, and community. He's also the Board President of 100 Black Men of Los Angeles, an MBA grad from Hampton University, and a proud dad — using mentorship and access to empower the next generation of creatives and leaders.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Mustache, Not a Mustache.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, SUns, go through Social Studies, give out Hardware, and are joined by Wolf and Kellan.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

The Texas SBOE is currently reviewing the Social Studies TEKS. Watch this video by Mary Elizabeth Castle, Dir. Of Gov Relations for Texas Values to learn more about the process and how to get involved. #txed Help us build our channel so we can maintain a culture of Faith, Family, & Freedom in Texas by interacting with us; like, comment, share, subscribe! For more about Texas Values see: Txvalues.org To support our work, go to donate.txvalues.org/GivetoTexasValues

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Generation Gap.

Bickley and Marotta talk Suns, go through Social Studies, are joined by Bryce Drew, and Mock My World.

In this episode of China Field Notes, Scott Kennedy talks with Adam Webb, Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Drawing on Kennedy's own experience as an HNC student and Webb's long tenure on the faculty, they discuss what makes the Center unique in the landscape of international higher education institutions and how this dual-language, dual-university model fosters exchange and mutual understanding. Webb also reflects on how the Center has navigated political shifts, the pandemic, and growing skepticism towards engagement, while preserving academic freedom and open dialogue. The conversation concludes with a discussion of shifting national identities in the United States and China, how these dynamics are felt on campus and in the classroom, and the importance of broadening debates beyond the two countries.    Adam K Webb is Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre (HNC), where he also serves as Resident Professor of Political Science. He has been a faculty member since 2008. He previously taught at Princeton and Harvard and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests cut broadly across political thought, globalization, and critiques of modernity. He is the author of four books, including Beyond the Global Culture War (2006), A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values (2009), Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation (2015), and his most recent book, The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order (published January 2025) which offers a radically different vision of future world order that could work in a global space while shifting the balance of power from state back to society. He received his AB summa cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard and his MA and PhD in Politics from Princeton. 

Bickley and Marotta talk Suns, go through Social Studies, and play Mustache, Not a Mustache.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, gothrough Social Studies, hand out Hardware, and are joined by Wolf and Luke.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, are joined by Ric Bucher, go through Social Studies, and play Generation Gap.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and Mock My World.

https://www.maynardvillefellowship.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Cooke-Civics-11-5-25.mp3 Whatever happened to civics class?Once upon a time, every student needed two or three semesters of civics to graduate high school. Today, “social studies” has replaced it—and most students can't explain the difference. What changed? In this opening lecture, Pastor Matt exposes the theological shift behind that subtle terminology change and the seismic worldview upheaval that followed. What was once taught as a science—anchored in divine order, objective truth, and fixed moral law—has been recast as a humanity, rooted in relativism and feeling. The result? The America our forefathers envisioned—built on biblical foundations and covenantal responsibility—is being slowly replaced by something completely different.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, play Mustache Not a Mustache, and are joined by Wolf and Luke for cross talk.

When – and how – did Athenian democracy begin? There is no unambiguous answer to this question. This lecture explores one plausible origin: the popular uprising in 508 BCE overthrowing foreign invaders (who had previously expelled an Athenian-bred family of tyrants). In the aftermath of that revolution, the Athenians – led by Kleisthenes – reorganised their political system to foster new identities and interactions. As further political and social changes were made, Athenian democracy took shape in the imaginations of contemporaries and of later generations.This lecture was recorded by Professor Melissa lane on the 16th of October 2025 at Barnards Inn Hall, London.Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University and is also Associated Faculty in the Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy. Previously she was Senior University Lecturer at Cambridge University in the Faculty of History and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.She studied for her first degree in Social Studies (awarded summa cum laude) at Harvard University, and then took an MPhil and PhD in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she was a student at King's College, supported by appointments as a Marshall Scholar, Truman Scholar, and Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow of Phi Beta Kappa.Professor Lane is an author, lecturer and broadcaster who has received major awards including being named a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Lucy Shoe Meritt Resident in Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. She has published widely in journals and authored or introduced nine major books including Greek and Roman Political Ideas; Eco-Republic; and most recently, Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political, which was awarded the 2024 Book Prize of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.Professor Lane is the only person ever to have delivered both the Carlyle Lectures and the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the University of Oxford.The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/tyranny-democracyGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham College's mSupport the show

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and hand out Hardware.

Bickley and Marotta talk ASU, go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Generation Gap. 

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, are joined by Mark Schlereth, and we play Mock My World.

Bickley and Marotta talk Suns, go through Social Studies, and we play Mustache, Not a Mustache.

Bickley and Marotta talk Suns, go through Social Studies, hand out Hardware, and are joined by Kellan Olson.

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

Under the new state superintendent, Oklahoma's State Board of Education is moving quickly to deal with controversial issues.

Bickley and Marotta talk Suns, go through Social Studies, and play The Generation Gap.

Bickley and Tim Ring talk Suns, go through Social Studies, we're joined by Mark Schlereth, and we play Mock My World.

Bickley and Tim Ring talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and play Mustache, Not a Mustache.

Bickley and Tim Ring talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and hand out Hardware.

Bickley and Kellan Olson talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and The Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

Bickley and Kellan Olson talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies, and we play Mock My World.

Bickley and Tim Ring talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies and talk to NFL analyst Mark Schlereth. 

Bickley and Tim Ring talk Cardinals, go through Social Studies and talk Suns with TV analyst Tom Leander. 

Episode 221: Embracing Queer Social Studies with Sandra Schmidt by Visions of Education

On this week's episode: The White House finds the connections between JC and CK ... Rumor has it that Ryan Walters fucked a pile of flour during a board of education zoom call? ... And Don Ford will be here to read Paul's homophobic letter to the Romans. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: scathingnews@gmail.com To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show's hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show's sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ --- Headlines: At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/kirk-memorial-service-christianity-religion.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/21/us/politics/kirk-memorial-photos.html White House's Karoline Leavitt appears to connect earthquake to Charlie Kirk's death and Biblical prophecy: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-death-karoline-leavitt-prophecy-earthquake-b2828284.html Trump links autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/health/trump-autism-announcement-cause-tylenol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/trump-tylenol-autism-vaccines-fact-check.html https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550153/trump-rfk-autism-tylenol-leucovorin-pregnancy Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI: https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-nixes-virtual-pope-idea-explains-concerns-about-ai The rapture was supposed to happen:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/rapture-tiktok-sept-23.html https://substack.com/home/post/p-174218365 Oklahoma's Supreme Court blocks Ryan Walters' Bible-heavy Social Studies standards: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-supreme-court-blocks-ryan