Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Teaching the Complicated Legacies of the Founding Fathers
Teaching the Complicated Legacies of the Founding Fathers Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements and seek to identify common ground on some of education’s thorniest questions. I thought readers might…
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Tips and Cautions for Educators and Policymakers
Tips and Cautions for Educators and Policymakers From Influential Scholars Last month, we ran the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. The exercise involves identifying 200 of the nation’s most influential education scholars and provides a useful chance to take their temperature on some big questions relating to research, practice, and policy. In that spirit,…
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You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level
You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level. Here’s How That line of thinking hasn’t caught on with all teachers, though: When a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey asked why they haven’t addressed climate change or issues related to it with students, 26 percent of teachers said they can’t think…
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The Top Issues for District Leaders in 2023
The Top Issues for District Leaders in 2023 COVID-19 continued to take its toll on districts, on top of students’ urgent academic and mental health needs. Divisive political debates overtook school board meetings and staffing shortages hamstrung some schools’ operations. Districts facing talent shortages and supply chain problems struggled to spend a windfall of federal…
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How to Get Rid of Discipline Disparities for Students of Color
How to Get Rid of Discipline Disparities for Students of Color What are strategies schools can implement to reduce and eliminate disparities in discipline affecting students of color? Racial and gender disparities, as well as the damages associated with them, in school disciplinary proceedings have been broadly documented for decades. The issues surrounding the disproportionality…
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19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom
19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom ‘ChatGPT Can Be a useful tool’ Susan Barber teaches at Midtown High School in Atlanta, serves as the College Board adviser for AP Literature and on the NCTE Secondary Steering Committee, and works as a teacher consultant. You can find her cheering teachers on at MuchAdoAboutTeaching.com or…
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Should Students Be Allowed to Eat in Class
Should Students Be Allowed to Eat in Class? Here’s What Teachers Have to Say Our students often seem like they are always hungry—some due to their families’ economic conditions, some because they got up too late to eat breakfast, and some because their growing bodies just need to eat a lot. I’m a high school…
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What Makes for Valuable Feedback? Teachers Weigh In
What Makes for Valuable Feedback? Teachers Weigh In Ann Hlabangana-Clay has been an instructional leader, coach, and presenter serving students and adult learners in Delaware and Pennsylvania for 28 years. She is host of the Coaching You Through All Things Education Podcast: As an educator for 28 years, I have had many supervisors, principals, teacher…
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Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School
Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School This sentiment remains relevant for Black people today, as K-12 schools continue to grapple with how to best (or even at all) integrate Black history into social studies and language arts curricula. Too often, this essential content is relegated to metaphorically “eat in the kitchen” by only being…
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Africana Studies Can Save Education—and the World
Africana Studies Can Save Education—and the World Ismael Jimenez is the director of social studies curriculum for the Philadelphia public school district and an adjunct professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education Urban Teacher Apprentice Program. He has been teaching Philadelphia public schools’ required African American history course for more than a…
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