Schooling America
The Schooling America podcast covers issues and ideas relevant to leaders in American education. We bring in the brightest minds in administration, philosophy, culture, and beyond to reflect on topics that directly impact schools, organizations, and the children and families they serve. From cultural issues to operations to curriculum and pedagogy, Schooling America seeks to enrich the ideas, strategy, and execution of education institutions nationwide.
Schooling America
Latest Episodes
Your Students Are Terrified of Silence, and It's Worth Finding Out Why | The Furrows
Jane Scharl read Crime and Punishment alone at eleven, and what it gave her was not a sense of being special but the opposite: a sense that everything she felt had been felt before, and that she owed it to those people to go find out how they'd...
Patrick Whalen Made 10th Graders Wrestle to Learn about the Iliad | The Furrows
Patrick Whalen spent a decade in the Marine Corps, founded a boys' boarding school on a Kansas farm, and now builds physical education curriculum for classical schools through Iliad Athletics. He tells Ryan Klopak and Alex Julian ho...
How to Draw the Cynical Middle Schooler Into the Great Ideas w/ Elizabeth Williams
Elizabeth Williams knew she wanted to teach from the time she lined up her stuffed animals for class as a small child, but it was a homeschool high school built on classical literature—and a self-led reading of The Grapes of Wrath—that showed h...
How Classical Education Made a Convert Without Preaching a Word w/ Nikhil Jandhyala | The Furrows
Nikhil Jandhyala came to classical education as a public-school kid raised on two faiths—Hinduism American capitalism—and left it a Catholic teacher who now hands the same gift to his own students. Ryan Klopak and Alex Julian trace that transfo...
The One Aristotle Argument Professor Owen Anderson Uses to Break Open Freshman Philosophy | The Furrows
Professor Owen Anderson teaches philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University, where starts every intro philosophy class with "where did your life go so wrong?" In this conversation, Ryan and Alex trace his journey from a c...
