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2026

I Just Don’t Get It: The Educational Philosophy of Michael Oakeshottoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026

2025

On Woodworkingoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2025
To Change All Worldsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
Louise Rosenblatt: Literature as Explorationoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2025
Menooriginal ↗
19 May 2025
George Counts: Dare the School Build a New Social Order?original ↗
21 Apr 2025
John Gatto:  Against Schooloriginal ↗
20 Apr 2025
John Rawls: A Theory of Justiceoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2025
Neil Postman: Teaching as a Conserving Activityoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2025

2024

Foucault’s Notion of Poweroriginal ↗
8 May 2024
Benjamin Bloom: The Father of Proficiency-Based Learningoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2024
On Kant: Sage of Dutyoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2024

2023

Street Dataoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2023
The Cult of Smartoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2023
What is “Equity” in Education?original ↗
20 Jul 2023
Rousseau’s Emile — This Time I Got Itoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2023
Susan Neiman: The Dangers of Tribalismoriginal ↗
18 May 2023
The Liberals are Comingoriginal ↗
16 May 2023
John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty”: The Importance of Free Expressionoriginal ↗
4 May 2023
Norm-Referenced vs. Criterion-Referenced Grading: A Key Window into Our Ed Valuesoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2023
Does John Dewey Care About Subject Matter?original ↗
20 Mar 2023
Dewey’s Morality: Human Nature and Conductoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2023
Pragmatism:  Provisional Truth, or Relativism?original ↗
2 Mar 2023
The Seeds of Revolution: Rousseau’s A Discourse on Inequalityoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2023
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: The Philosophy to “Get Through”original ↗
13 Feb 2023
On the Morning After the Sixities — Joan Didionoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2023
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: The Problem at the Heart of Itoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2023
Locke’s Second Treatise of Governmentoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2023
The Birth of the Enlightenment: John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understandingoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2023
John Locke’s “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”: Not at All What I Thought it Would Beoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2023
The Montessori Methodoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2023

2022

Liberalism: The Critiquesoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2022
Liberalism and Its Discontentsoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
What Makes a Stylish Whitewater Kayaker?original ↗
20 Nov 2022
Understanding by Designoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
Bloom’s Taxonomy: More Subtle Than I Thoughtoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2022
Liberalism-Plusoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2022
Paine v. Burkeoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Emile: Rousseau as the Founder of Modern Child-Centered Educationoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2022
Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentimentsoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2022
Marx’s Humanizationoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2022
Freire’s Purpose: Humanizationoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
Reflections on Edmund Burkeoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2022
A Moment for Free Speechoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2022
The Hidden Curriculum: Does it Exist?original ↗
15 Mar 2022
The Blank Slateoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2022
Why We Read? (Part VI: Moral Complexity, Understanding Human Nature)original ↗
21 Feb 2022
Art Theoryoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2022
Hylomorphismoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2022
Trying to Understand Why I Like Watching Socceroriginal ↗
17 Feb 2022
What makes a good reading curriculum? (Part V: More Ideas)original ↗
4 Feb 2022
What makes a good reading curriculum (Part IV: The Ideas)original ↗
3 Feb 2022
What Makes a Good Reading Curriculum? Part III: The Search for Ideasoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2022
What are the goals of a good high school reading curriculum? (Part II – The Social Justice Era)original ↗
10 Jan 2022
Why Read? (What are the goals of a good reading curriculum?)original ↗
10 Jan 2022

2021

So what is “traditional” education, anyway? (A historical perspective)original ↗
18 Dec 2021
What I Hate About Twitteroriginal ↗
23 Nov 2021
Critical Thinking Versus Critical Theoryoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2021
The Categorical Imperativeoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2021
What does it mean to have the “constrained” vision of education?original ↗
31 Oct 2021
Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visionsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2021
Cynical Theoriesoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2021
Against Critical Theoryoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2021
The History of PBL, Part 5: The Minimum Competency Testing Movementoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2021
Origins of Proficiency-Based Learning, Part 4: Did Rebecca Holcombe understand PBL?original ↗
1 Aug 2021
The Origins of Proficiency: Part 3 — Mastery Learningoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2021
Beyond the Podiumoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2021
Bloom’s Curveoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2021
The Wisdom of The Federalistoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2021
Origins of PBL, Part II: PBL is just Outcome-Based Learning (lite)original ↗
14 Jul 2021
Proficiency-Based Learning: Where Did it Come From? Part 1original ↗
13 Jul 2021
The Constitution of Knowledgeoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2021
Different Approaches to PBL in Vermont High Schools, A Study: Initial Impressionsoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2021
Screaming in Publicoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2021
Proficiency-Based Learning in Vermont, Part 2: The Benefits and the Drawbacksoriginal ↗
13 May 2021
Reflections on Proficiency-Based Learning in Vermontoriginal ↗
13 May 2021
Reflections on Proficiency-Based Learning In Vermont (Part 1)original ↗
11 May 2021
The Dreamkeepersoriginal ↗
3 May 2021
Shadows on the Caveoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
Vygotsky: My Final Takeoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2021
There’s a lot there: One chapter of Vygotsky’s “Thought and Language”original ↗
7 Mar 2021
Time to Read Vygotskyoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2021
Taking the Long Vieworiginal ↗
22 Feb 2021
Diane Ravitch: The Revisionists Revisedoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2021
Cremin II: Public Education and the Education of the Public (1976)original ↗
2 Feb 2021
Lawrence Creminoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2021
Skinner’s Metaphorsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2021
The Teaching Gaporiginal ↗
10 Jan 2021
Teaching Ethics in Schooloriginal ↗
3 Jan 2021

2020

Discouraging Creativity as a Teacheroriginal ↗
29 Dec 2020
In Their Natural Stateoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2020
Done with Girouxoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2020
Radical Democracyoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2020
Critical Race Theory: Packer vs. Coatesoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2020
The Importance of Theoryoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2020
Liberalism: The Worst System — Except for all of Those Other Onesoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
On the Day After an Adventureoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2020
The Death of Men’s Jacketsoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2020
Critical . . . of What?original ↗
2 Aug 2020
Radical Pluralismoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2020
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