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The United States spends more and gets less in health care. Here's why.

And prison guards, and jail workers, and anyone else charged with protecting the public’s safety.

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Objective: Although ADHD is largely associated with antisocial behavior, those affected are often said to show pronounced justice sensitivity. To investigate th...

CHARLESTON – West Virginia Public Broadcasting has parted ways with one of its reporters after alleged retaliation from WVPB operational management and pressure from the Department of Health and Human Resources. According to Amelia Knisely, a part-time reporter whose beat included public health, WVPB told her that her services were no longer required in a […]

“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of th…

Conservative talking heads like Jesse Watters and Lauren Southern don’t seem to understand that slapping someone in the face and saying it’s comedy isn’t enough.

Why Melissa Wolf is right and Matt Groening is wrong.

Des Moines Public Schools ends its contract with police, focuses on restorative practices, and improves outcomes for everyone. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.

How we can reimagine our spaces by examining the weird, eerie, and tangentially related. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.

…the world seems no longer to be one that is under human control (if it ever was), but a world that is de-regulated in all major aspects…

Listen to 98: Militarism, Baudrillard, Video Game Design, and the College Board from Human Restoration Project. In this podcast we've decided to experiment a bit with our programming. To be honest, right now there's a ton of burnout in the education world, from the pandemic to ongoing struggles of teacher power and support, and the culture war once again resurfacing in the classroom. As educators by day and nonprofit workers by night, we totally get that struggle.Therefore, we're putting a slight pause on our typical interview format to try out something new. This frees us up from the workload of scheduling, researching, and working with guests. And, it opens up the door for us to produce more casual content. If you like the guest stuff, don't worry - we'll come back to that in early December! But...if you like the new stuff, please let us know.In this podcast we're going to go through four parts:An update of what we're working on at HRP.Article shareouts that Nick and I have been interested in recently.Talking about what we're currently doing in our classrooms.A pop-quiz to see who exits this podcast alive (or something.)And we discuss:Militarism and increased nationalism in the classroom.Simulation theory, Baudrillard, and fatal strategies.How video game design relates to classroom pedagogy.Celebrating Columbus Day (and the surrounding debate) and its context to nationalism.The corruption of large-scale nonprofits, including testing companies and public charter networks.

In this video, we’ll explore the connections between teaching, reimagining education, and the work of philosopher Jean Baudrillard, the philosopher who heavi...

"Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory" published on 16 Nov 2020 by Brill.

From Spy x Family to Way of the Househusband, here are the GOATS of feel-good anime

Autistic people are often described as having a spiky profile. This refers to our neurodivergent tendency to have great strengths in some areas and deficits in others. These peeks and troughs of functioning, be they related to social skills, self care, academics or anything else, can vary over the course of the day and/or lifetime … Continue reading Life as a hedgehog

The evaluative gaze of school is so constant a presence, so all-pervasive an eye, that many people have come to believe that children would actually not develop without it. But an oak tree does not require your opinion to grow, and believe it or not, 90% of the time, neither does a child.

Read the report Download the toolkit Learn about our methods and data We need a more productive public conversation about history. Amid ongoing national controversy, it is more important than ever for the history community to be able to clearly explain what history is, how we come to understand

Catrina Lowri is a neurodivergent teacher, trainer, and coach. As well as having 22 years’ experience of working in education, she also speaks as a dyslexic and bipolar woman, who had her own unique journey through the education system This is the 3rd part of my series of blogs on behaviour. I have promised to talk more about how I became a relational practitioner. And I will get to that, but first lets deal with punishments and rewards, and why they do not work to effect any meaningful change i

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We believe that the voices of students, educators, and families should be front and center in decisions about how to remake school after this moment. And, that conversations within communities, between people who care about each other (and who have to see one another again soon), are the practice of civil democracy our country needs right now.

Foreword to Cooperative Games 2022 Cooperative Games Discovering How Much Fun Competition Isn't By Alfie Kohn [This essay is adapted from the Foreword to Cooperative Games in Education by Suzanne Lyons (Teachers College Press, 2022)]

Instead of finding ways to fight fire with fire through more critique, we deviate from the norm in ways that confuse, conflate, and separate ourselves from the narrative. Baudrillard-inspired theorist Franco Berardi writes, "the best thing to do is to make friends with chaos."