Nurturing Resilience: Supporting Foster Youth in the Public Education System

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Education and American Identity: Mortimer Adler and The Paideia Proposal

We’re approaching America’s 250th birthday, and we are asking ourselves tough questions about schooling and democracy through the lens of the influential works of Mortimer Adler, a philosopher, educational reformer & theorist, and advocate for holistic liberal arts education. Adl ...  Show more

Education & Career Pathways in U.S. Correctional Facilities

This episode confronts a complexity of the U.S. justice system: education within prisons. What does educational opportunity look like for incarcerated individuals? The sheer scale of incarceration in the United States and devolved, state-by-state control has led to a patchwork sy ...  Show more

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