The Reason We Learn
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This Man Changed My Mind About Fairness in Education
This Man Changed My Mind About Fairness in Education
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American education is broken. We know we can do better—and here’s where we talk about how.
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- This Man Changed My Mind About Fairness in Education · 1 h 49 minHave you ever read a book on a subject you thought you already understood inside and out—only to realize something so blindingly obvious, you feel almost foolish for not having…
- When 'Freedom' isn't Freedom at All · 21 minIn this video, I challenge the way “freedom” is being defined and sold to us today. Using the debate over school choice and vouchers as a case study, I argue that more…
- Stop Pretending School Works · 21 minThis Substack-only segment from my conversation with Matt Bowman, co-founder of OpenEd, is a focused follow-up to our longer YouTube interview. In this shorter discussion, we…
- What is a "Good School" Anyway? A Teacher Explains · 1 h 55 minIn this episode, I sit down with veteran educator James Furey to unpack a question many parents and educators grapple with: What makes a school “good”? We explore how…
- Educated into Compliance: The Constitutional Case Against Compulsory Schooling · 17 minWhat If School Is Unconstitutional? How compulsory education laws violate your First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights What’s the underlying assumption behind compulsory…
- Is Your Child a Victim of Educational Neglect? · 31 minWhen teachers don’t teach, students don’t learn everything they’ll need to know to be successful in school, or in life. It’s as simple as that. Contrary to the assertions of the…
- The PURGE: Erasing the Enlightenment One Child at a Time · 1 h 46 minWhat are your children learning in school about man and what he should do in life? What kind of "self" are they being encouraged to develop? Do you even know? James Lindsay joins…
- What Really Makes American Schools So Unsafe? · 1 h 52 minHow often have you heard someone say “We have a mental health problem!” in the aftermath of a school shooting? It’s usually the thing you hear immediately after “We need…
- Ditching Devices is Crucial for Learning · 28 minHave you ever had a negative gut reaction to something that everyone else was excited about? That was me with EdTech. Everything I’d learned about learning, from brain science…
- Give Me Liberty, Not "Choice" · 5 minIf you’re new here, you might be surprised to learn that someone as critical of America’s public education system would oppose School Choice, but it’s true. I do. I want…
- Elite-College Johnny Still Can't Read · 14 minWe were warned. Almost seventy years ago, reading expert Rudolph Flesch’s bestselling book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, and What You Can Do About It warned Americans of the dangers of…
- What About Socialization? · 10 minI want to dig into the topic of “socialization” brought up today on X (see post below from Homeschool_LLC) because I truly believe the enduring myth he describes is likely the…
- Yes You ARE Qualified to Homeschool Your Children · 11 minThis post is not the first I’ve ever seen on social media from someone insisting we’re not “qualified” to homeschool our own children. I’ve addressed this before on my YouTube…
- Are You Getting "Gifted" Wrong? · 9 minI saw this post on X implying that giftedness should correlate with material success in life, and had to respond. Myths like this are neither rare, nor benign, so they deserve to…
- Teaching the Holocaust: American Liberty Depends on It, with Anna Salton Eisen · 54 minImagine growing up and not knowing your parents were Holocaust survivors…That was childhood for my guest today, Anna Salton Eisen. Anna is the author of The 23rd Psalm: A…
- School-Based Counseling: Are We Making Things Worse? With Jake Wiskerchen · 1 h 12 minYou may have noticed that Mental Health, sometimes referred to as “wellness” or wellbeing, has, both in terms of funding, and staffing, become job 1 for most schools, and you may…
- Stolen Youth at Sarah Lawrence: What You Need To Know About Coercive Control, with Joshua Slocum · 55 minIf you haven't yet watched the Hulu miniseries Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, I highly recommend that you do. I watched it, and invited Josh Slocum, from…
- Why I Walked Away From Public Schools, With Jon England · 1 h 11 minJon England is the Education Policy Analyst at Libertas Institute. He is a fourteen-year veteran public schools who became frustrated with the lack of innovation, transparency…
- What Should Be Taught in Our Schools with William B. Allen · 1 h 16 minProfessor William B. Allen is the Emeritus Dean of James Madison College, and Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at Michigan State University. I had the privilege of…
- Should We Resegregate America's Schools? With Wil Reilly · 1 h 25 minWilfred Reilly and I look back on the 70 years since Brown v Board of Education to ask if we are trying to re-segregate American Education, if so why, and what does "segregation"…
