What’s the secret of deeper learning? Over a century ago, John Dewey gave it away: we have to do something with what we want to learn about. In a new book called Changing the Subject, the High Tech High network of K–12 schools shares 50 inspiri

‘Flipping the System’ to Revitalize School, with Dara Barlin

Jul 13th, 2021 33m 13s

Efforts to improve high schools often bog down in bureaucracy before they have a chance to see what might work in practice. But Dara Barlin, founder of the Center for Transforming Culture, has found a way to flip that situation. In this episode

Imagining September, with Justin Reich

Jun 22nd, 2021 28m 10s

As the pandemic closed schools across the country, millions of students and teachers had to “do school” by remote instruction, whether or not they had the skills to make that work. Justin Reich, who directs the Teaching Systems Lab at the Massa

Where Difference Takes Us, with Steve Lazar

Jun 1st, 2021 38m 31s

New York City has the nation’s largest public school system, with more than 1.1 million students in 1,700 schools. But despite a citywide lottery system, the demographics of the city’s neighborhoods, combined with “screening algorithms” that mo

Youth As Coaches on the College Path, with Lori Chajet

May 19th, 2021 32m 38s

With the nonprofit College Access, Research and Action (CARA), Lori Chajet organized a groundbreaking method of youth-based support systems to sustain the trajectory of higher education for those without privilege in New York City. Why does it

The Young and the Woke, with Young Whan Choi

Apr 19th, 2021 35m 10s

A passionate advocate for youth in the Oakland, California school district, Young Whan Choi works to create structures that challenge hatred and division, supporting the rising generation as they actively shape a different world. What can that

Teaching During Unrest, with Khari Bell

Apr 19th, 2021 10m 58s

A young Black public high school teacher in Kenosha, Wisconsin talks about what happened to learning when his city became an epicenter of national protests. When history throws itself in your face, can you create respectful inquiry?