Curriculum

S2 · E6 · Apr 30, 2026

Some words are not just names — they are arguments. This episode examines how researchers came to use "violence" to describe certain institutional practices in education, and what that conceptual shift reveals about adultification, developmental harm, and the unwritten rules children of color meet in kindergarten classrooms long before they meet a textbook.

S2 · E5 · Apr 24, 2026

Marginalized knowledge does not stay marginalized, and it does not stay curricular either. This episode names the three-move cycle — dismissal, absorption, restriction — that dominant knowledge systems run when bodies of knowledge from the margin reach the record, and traces its most recent appearance in the wave of state-level curriculum laws since 2020.

S2 · E3 · Mar 9, 2026

Explores the history of ethnic studies and how student movements challenged universities to recognize marginalized histories and perspectives — and how expanding participation reshapes the boundaries of legitimate knowledge.

S1 · E4 · Jan 16, 2026

Challenges the common assumption that STEM is neutral. If 'math is objective' and 'data speaks for itself,' what gets hidden is the cultural design of many STEM classrooms — speed, linearity, and whose way of knowing counts.

S1 · E3 · Jan 16, 2026

A foundational question most schools rarely name: what counts as knowledge, and who gets to decide? Moves beyond the myth that curriculum and assessment are neutral to examine how knowledge is shaped by culture and power.