Robert Gressis (California State Northridge) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) hae a wide-ranging conversation about the (fraught?) relationship between schooling, learning, and A-F grading. The discussion centers around an essay Currie-Knight wrote called Against the Grade Economy: https://theelectricagora.com/2020/12/...
00:02:36 Rob and Kevin make small talk 00:07:01 Kevin describes and laments the grade economy 00:36:07 What's the relationship between grades and learning? 00:57:19 Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education" and how it has traumatized Rob 01:05:58 Unschooling 01:21:35 If schools sucks so much, how did Rob and Kevin learn?
In this conversation, I talk with higher education anthropologist Susan Blum (Notre Dame) about her work on how students experience higher education. We also...
On this episode, we talk with historical sociologist David Labaree (Stanford University, Professor Emeritus) about the evolution of school in the United States and...
Kevin talks with Samantha Hedges (Heterodox Academy, Substack) about recent articles she has written criticizing critical-race-influenced approaches to diversity and equity training in schools....