education philosophy:

• POV an Autocrat Designs a School system: Lessons for democracy-building education.

• Why Are We Learning This? The importance of asking the big questions about education.

• Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: How we design classrooms that lead to critical thinking & lasting learning.

• Powerful Concepts: Presentism, the sunk cost fallacy, and collective action are all examples of powerful concepts that once you know them you see everywhere. But concepts like theses are too often the missing layer in high schools.

What High School Could Be:

A series exploring how we’d design a liberal arts education if we started over today.

• English: The single area of education that’s declined the most in the last 20 years—it’s time to get way more ambitious about what we expect.

• History: We’ve got a lot of ambition but don’t execute on our democratic ideals—here’s how we might.

• Math: We’re ambitious about the wrong things—what we could do instead.

• Science: We aren’t ambitious about the thing that matters most—building a bigger constituency for science.