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3 episodes on this topic, in order of publication.

  • 017

    S2 · E6 · Apr 30, 2026

    The Hidden Curriculum: When Researchers Chose the Word Violence

    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.

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    S2 · E4 · Apr 20, 2026

    Who Gets to Teach It? Representation and the Long Shadow of Brown v. Board

    Integration happened to the students — it did not happen to the teaching profession. Revisits the Brown v. Board–era displacement of Black educators rarely included in the standard story, and examines what decades of research on ethnic matching reveal about student outcomes.

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    S2 · E1 · Feb 21, 2026

    Knowledge, Power, and the U.S. Demographic Pivot

    The classroom has changed — has education? For the first time in U.S. history, children under 18 are the majority non-white. Season 2 opens with the question: who decides what counts as knowledge?

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