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 l...

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 th...

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 ...

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...

Light, short, and sweet. Just like summer vacation, today’s episode is focused on the question: Why does public education abandon children for two mon...

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 ...

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 ...

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 quirk...

    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 be...

  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 ...