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.
Latest episodes
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16 min
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 c…
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27 min
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 ru…
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15 min
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, sideline…
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20 min
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 sh…
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25 min
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 c…
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14 min
S1:E6 - Double Header: "My Pragmatic Journey to Voice & Choice in the Classroom" and "Cutting Content to Make…
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…
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15 min
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…
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16 min
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 stan…
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12 min
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 fu…
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14 min
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 imposi…
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7 min
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 r…
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3 min
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 & topic…