Listen to my latest podcast with The Grading Podcast superhosts and superstars Sharona Krinsky and Robert Bosley. It's about #Schoolishness and #ungrading and #alternativeassessment and more! #AI might make an appearance. thegradingpod.com/episodes/160...

160 – Schoolishness, AI and the Future of Education: A conversation with Dr. Susan D. Blum.

What if the biggest challenge facing education isn’t grading—but our assumptions about school itself? In this episode, Sharona and Boz welcome anthropologist and author Susan Blum for a wide-…

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My latest Substack: "Sometimes It Really IS Brain Surgery: What I Did on my Summer Vacation" open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

Sometimes It Really is Brain Surgery

What I Did on My Summer Vacation**

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Read my latest Substack post, inspired by Amelia Thomas’s book What Sheep Think About the Weather, and applying principles of autonomy to both animal and human learning. susandblum.substack.com/p/motivation...

Motivation through Play, Not Through Fear or Control

Lessons for Teaching Humans from Working with Other Animals

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Watch the opening of the Obama Center! www.obama.org/visit/grand-...

Watch the Grand Opening

The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public! Come mark this milestone at a free, open-house style event, celebrating community, creativity, and joy. Dance to music on the plaza, create art with ...

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My latest Substack, about what college is for. Battle of the Paradigms: What is College for in a Cynical Age? open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

Battle of the Paradigms: What is College for in a Cynical Age?

Depends whom you ask Can the contradictions be harmonized? Take number 2964931

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My latest Substack post, in response to the attempt by Harvard to limit the number of A grades #HigherEd #Assessment #Grades open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

Oh Harvard. Limiting A’s Is Not It

Grade Inflation, Deflation, and Obsession

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I participated in an hour-long conversation titled “What is College for Today?”with Nicole Lynn Lewis and Paul LeBlanc, moderated by Anya Kamenetz, and hosted by Frederique Rigoulot, on the Cambridge Forum platform. You can listen to us here! cambridgeforum.org/what-is-coll... #HigherEd

I had a great time talking with two Catholic theologians, Alessandro Rovati and Jason Heron, about ungrading and schoolishness and morality. I absolutely see education as a moral project. You can listen to us (and watch us) here! open.substack.com/pub/catholic...

From Coercion to Fascination: Moving Beyond Grades

Why Grades Harm the Catholic Vision of Education

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I wrote a piece on Substack about the closing of Hampshire College. Such a sad end of an era. open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

On Hearing of Hampshire College’s Closing

….End of a Hopeful Progressive Era?

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"A Priest, a Scientist, and a Humanist Walk into a Classroom"--or to least we had a conversation about learning! (I'm the humanist) With Ji Son, Louis DelFra, and others at the U of Notre Dame, Inst for Educational Initiatives, Center for Educational Research and Action. youtu.be/ec0LbZq4ChA?...

Era Speaker Series: A Priest, a Scientist, and a Humanist Walk into a Classroom

YouTube video by Institute for Educational Initiatives

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Is pedagogy a moral project? Check out my latest Substack post! susandblum.substack.com/p/is-pedagog...

Is Pedagogy a Moral Project?

Theologians Weigh in on Ungrading

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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Here's my latest Substack post, titled "The Polycrisis: How to Face Teaching in 2026." open.substack.com/pub/susandbl... #education #pedagogy #polycrisis

The Polycrisis

How to Face Teaching in 2026

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I'm so honored that you are engaging with my book! @cornellupress.bsky.social

Hunter ACERT@hunteracert.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today we met for Austin Bailey's Teaching Scholarship Circle centered on Susan D. Blum's book on Schoolishness. We talked abt where we notice schoolishness & alienation in education. Looking forward to reading more next week & to our guest of honor, @susandblum.bsky.social who joins our 3rd session!

I love that I am finally comfortable with all my students, even the ones who have been challenging for me, for reasons that may have only to do with me and not with them. @susandblum.bsky.social growbeyondgrades.org/blog/my-favo...

My Favorite Thing: Talking to Students About Their Learning — Grow Beyond Grades

Susan D. Blum, editor of the book Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) , shares how she uses conferences to consult learners in their full humanity (as much as ...

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The world of ought sometimes beckons to the world of is, and change toward practices that work requires a vision of what that would be. @susandblum.bsky.social growbeyondgrades.org/blog/my-favo...

My Favorite Thing: Talking to Students About Their Learning — Grow Beyond Grades

Susan D. Blum, editor of the book Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) , shares how she uses conferences to consult learners in their full humanity (as much as ...

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Democracy, Debates, December: On a good day....(My latest Substack post) Democracy requires disagreement, disagreement requires debate, and debate requires practice: the role of education. susandblum.substack.com/p/democracy-...

Democracy, Debates, December

On a good day....

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I had a wonderful conversation with @Trevor Aleo about my latest book, #Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, and you can listen to us on his podcast, Conceptually Speaking. open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

Dr. Susan Blum Talks Schoolishness and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning

Listen now | In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Dr.

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I just came across a new review of my book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning. The reviewer, Jake Mattox, appreciated the wide reading in multiple areas that accompanied my manifesto/tirade/prayer. radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social writes, "What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force." October 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 19, 2025

All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

AntiFa = Anti-Fascist. If you’re opposing this, you’re ProFa, = Pro-Fascist, or possibly Anti-Anti-Fascist. I know where I stand. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Fascism | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Fascism is a far-right authoritarian political philosophy. Learn about the history and principles of fascism and its implementation in Nazi Germany.

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1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy. #GenerativeAI

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely! forms.gle/yscpm2vubiEH...

School Story Lab

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We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

Annie@anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 10mo ago

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education. #highereducation open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

Magic Wand

Dreaming of What Higher Education Could Be

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www.noemamag.com/the-last-day... “The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

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Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know

Krassensteins@krassenstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just announced that Democrats now have the votes to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Sept. 23 — the discharge petition will be entered into the record. 7 days later — the House votes.