Learning Machine: The Uncertain Future of Education
Interview-based show building bridges and demolishing barriers between educators, edtech companies, researchers, and learners. Three teachers discuss the big questions about the future of education, with people who (might) have the answers.
Learning Machine: The Uncertain Future of Education
CRT and the Culture War w/ Freddie deBoer
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Nathan Levin & Sam Squillace
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Season 2
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Episode 7
If we won the fight around CRT, what would we be winning? This is the question Freddie deBoer asks in his article, CRT could use a little cost/benefit analysis - and his argument is compelling. As the political and cultural left struggles to clearly define CRT - and even in some cases to admit that it’s having an influence in American schools - deBoer points out that there are concrete programs and initiatives that would have a bigger impact for students in the classroom. He issues a clear and important challenge to those - like the three of us on this podcast - who believe that CRT is a powerful academic tool that can help to inform educational policy: What are we defending? For what benefit? And - at what cost?