On why assessment scores hamper our ability to gauge student learning.

An overview of Critical Race Theory and why the theory is needed within the education system.

Summarizes how removing bloated content from the classroom and focusing on student interests leads to greater interest.

A teacher's journey toward allowing voice and choice in the classroom.

A challenge to students on creating self-determined projects.

How can we declutter our classrooms to make room for student-driven learning?

An introduction to the protocols and practices of UDL through a fishing metaphor.

Showcases a shift in undergraduate and graduate programs from standardized assessment, and counteracting assumptions about standardized assessment.

Unpacking the criticisms of "what works" in education and the dangers of "evidence-based" education research.

The dangers of the circular logic of "if I got an A, then I must have learned it, and I know I learned it because I got an A."

A conference overview of resources and ideas for "liberatory pedagogy" by creating feedback first classrooms.

Asks the question: What is it about the world that is worth preparing students for? And is it possible to reach that question alone?

Guide on the meaning of mindfulness and its importance to everyone's lives.

A review of independent reading and school achievement, finding linkage across the board that letting students have free time to select and read books is beneficial for academic and motivational reasons.

An analysis of Freire’s teachings and concept of “humanization” - with a specific focus on how these theoretical ideas can be implemented in schools.

Summary of Abeles' research at one working-class school, demonstrating how 80% of adolescents suffer from moderate to severe anxiety, and 54% moderate and severe depression.

A quintessential overview of purpose-finding, Dr. William Damon explains the need for purpose-finding, its long-term and short-term benefits, and why schools need to frame purpose.

A summary of pitfalls in the research of purpose-finding as well as the current research that exists in the field.

Shows a connection between motivation, reading, and academic success in school.

A reflection of educators reflectively critically on their practice and ability to meet underserved students.

A series of educators interviewed on their implementation of Freire's work in modern schools.

A summary of Freire's beliefs about education and a message for educators to push back against anti-freedom authoritarianism in schools.

Demonstrates the issues with reformers centering top-down, corporate-driven reform on students of color.

Despite the majority of educators participating in PD throughout the year, most are unhappy with its results. (Further, 57% of educators received 16 hours of PD or less over the last 12 months.)

An extensively researched work on school reform and building public progressive institutions.

A full overview of how Central Park East (Deborah Meier) uses a portfolio system to assess student graduation.

De Lissovoy interrogates the meaning and implications of Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" in the light of the neoliberal 21st century fragmentation of society and individuals.

An overview of self-determination theory and how its incorporation in school showcases a heavily increased level of learning.

Relates research between motivation and intrinsic objectives to deeper understanding of subject matter.

Provides details on the need for self-determination and competence, laying out the necessary requirements for people to achieve each.

Provides evidence that extrinsic rewards have a damaging effect on intrinsic motivation.

An inspiring look at how Dennison leads students towards positive outcomes through an authentic "human" education at the First Street School.

Exemplifies the issues of prestigious-college seeking youth, our obsession with “being the best”, and what education truly means.

Showcases research and case studies at implementing anti-bias curriculum in the classroom.

A fundamental overview of experiential learning and one of the originators of progressive education.

A series of lesson plans on teaching labor movements.

Demonstrates how the college admissions process makes progressive practices difficult, but not impossible.

On how the college admissions process damages our ability to demonstrate our learning.

Research shows how grit is a general indicator of success. Notably, however, is that grit is defined as a individual's perseverance and a passion for a long-term goal.

A range of interviews talking about teachers giving up power to allow for choice within their classrooms.

Consistently poses questions that counteract misinformation about Native communities, specifically stories that are usually taught in elementary school

Highlights a program of a digital literacy program centered on poor students of color.

An argument for youth cultural literacies and application in the classroom.

An overview of the concept of critical pedagogy, showcases why it is needed in urban contexts, and provides three case studies of what it actually looks like in practice.

A history of grading from the early 20th century, showcasing what assumptions and ideas have existed about grades and assessment.

A basis for “growth mindset” - a review of research studies showcasing how students who believe that intellectual abilities can be developed (rather than fixed) have higher achievement rates.

A showcase of various projects across K-12 featuring "gold standard" PBL elements.

This paper focuses on research that illustrates the important interplay between students' scientific epistemological views and their learning strategies.

Demonstrates the issues of implementing education for liberation, and provides a critique for "empowerment."

An essay supporting the need for children's inquiry, socialization, and natural curiosity to be embraced and focused on by schools.

A deeply researched account of how America's schools are aimed at wealth as opposed to educational pursuits.

Author provides a deep overview of the origins and cultivation of curiosity.

Explains how young children see and understand the world, showcasing their brilliance and ability to perceive new ideas.

Analyzes the question: Do specialists actually get better with experience or not, and is narrow, deliberate practice the only way to achieve greatness in a given field?

A look at how multiple-choice tests have serious flaws that limit their use.

A collection of articles, research studies, and expert discussion on the misuse of standardized testing.

A journey of over a decade in the testing industry. Starting as a simple scorer, Farley works his way through the ranks to reigning as a testing consultant — despite all of the deplorable events he witnesses.

Demonstrates the need for a shift to process over product, especially in arts education.

A call for changing school lunches toward equitable, healthy food through various organizations, action plans, and holistic practices.

Showcases how certain words and topics are pressured to not be covered in public schools from various sources.

This article powerfully challenges the popular cognitive science-backed direct instruction approach to schooling.

Study shows how lack of peer acceptance in 4th grade led to increasingly negative academic outcomes to 6th grade (and possibly beyond), identifying a need for teachers to build relationships between students.

Giroux provides an interview that dissects the idea of "neutrality" in education, and why we need to hold people in power accountable.

Further inquiry into the concept of "critical pedagogy" and how one's perspective and life situation needs a raised consciousness to understand and change the system they're apart of.

Freire's argument of using the techniques of critical pedagogy to specifically liberate oppressed societies.

An application of Pedagogy of the Oppressed with specifically the urban poor.

The basis of "critical pedagogy" - analyzing how the teacher/student relationship has become similar to colonization models, and our need for teachers to work "with" students rather than "at" students.

Showcases the activist, "Freire" approach to transformative change in the classroom.

Details how the view of students as passive receivers of information can corrupt and misalign the goals of the education system.

Highlights the need for “humanization” of the classroom and how teachers can connect to students’ lived experiences.

Essays by Freire and various contemporary theorists on lessons learned in teaching liberatory learning.

A treatise on the United States school lunch system: its history, battle over nutritional quality, and those who are fighting to change it.

A well-written account of how school programs that are meant to encourage reading actually hinder and destroy a love of reading, in-turn decreasing reading comprehension.

Outlines how students choose what their college major will be and based on findings, recommends that students are exposed to more internships & experiences to find greater purpose.

Frames the transactional, market-oriented, outcomes-focus of modern higher ed. institutions as befitting “classrooms of death”, borrowing symbolism from 19th century Danish folk school leader Nikolai Grundtvig.

A teacher's study of being a participant observer in an English classroom, resisting the temptation to enact control.

Demonstrates the need for quality professional development amongst a growing teacher shortage. Finds that only 11% of teachers have a say in their professional development.

An extensive look at what it means to work in “Good Work” - or work that has purpose, meaning, and intrinsically motivated goals. Written by a collection of experts on purpose.

This article argues that metal detectors bestow an organizational stigma to schools.

An overview of how teachers should implement and inform equity-centered and progressive classrooms. (The attached link is Chapter 7, on how to inform and introduce students to this style of learning.)

Research finds that 9th and 10th grade students had greater life satisfaction and less depressive symptoms when they found meaning and love in their lives.

The first comprehensive study of 3,898 prekindergarten classrooms across 40 states into the expulsion rates in state prekindergarten systems.

Outlines the day-to-day interactions teachers have with children, offering suggestions to solve the minute interactions that encompass most of this profession.

An overview of the history of the high-stakes testing system.

A series of essays discussing post-modernism, feminism, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy.

Showcases how educational policy has been taken by corporate forces and market-driven philosophies.

A rejection of the empirical concept of teaching, Giroux analyzes how students have become more like customers than learners.

Political attacks on critical race theory and the 1619 Project, promoting "patriotic education", etc. amount to an attack on academic freedom and normalizes authoritarianism.

Demonstrates the democratic possibilities of schooling, offering that schools are one of the few places youth can engage in democratic thinking.

An extensive argument of how neoliberal is not just an economic theory, but a form of political and cultural power manifested in education.

Demonstrates how building leaders and educators can move away from mandated strict guidelines that often hurt student outcomes.

A series of practices that support increased student participation through a Universal Design for Learning.

A podcast from Cult of Pedagogy on The Apollo School, which is centered on experiential learning.

A four-year study of 1,000 classrooms offering ways to improve the schooling system away from high-stakes testing and moving toward a common set of concepts.

Demonstrates through research that nonfiction reading is integral for student success, yet lacking in school. Suggestions are made to connect nonfiction reading to student interest.

Outlines the need and practice of play in schools, including its benefits and definition as "play."

Finds that teachers report the highest levels of occupational stress, the same as nurses, which impacts the classroom.

When two groups of students were presented with controlling vs. non-controlled learning, those in a non-controlled (and more autonomous) environment had greater learning outcomes and motivation.When two groups of students were presented with controlling vs. non-controlled learning, those in a non-controlled (and more autonomous) environment had greater learning outcomes and motivation.

Explains the hyper focus on markets' connection to damaging children's outcomes.

An argument against the implementation of No Child Left Behind and "standardized test scores at any cost" culture.