Susan and Marcus talk through the ideas and arguments from their recently published book "Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)". This episode explores the idea that if we grade our students, which negatively affect their learning. 'Going gradeless' is a challenging, but ultimately rewarding task. 

The book is an excellent and very accessible resource - a must read  for all anarchic educators!: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ungrading-Students-Undermines-Learning-Education/dp/1949199827 

Marcus' choice of punk song in this episode is 'School Days' by female rockers The Runaways - listen to it here: https://youtu.be/HYxUAeEs8mE

Susan's punk choice is Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall', which shows the sausage machine metaphor of our conventional education system: https://youtu.be/HrxX9TBj2zY 

Susan D Blum is Professor of anthropology at Notre Dame University, Indiana. Her other books on higher education include 'My World! Plagiarism and College Culture' and 'I Love Learning; I Hate School' http://www.susanblum.com/

Marcus Schultz-Bergin teaches political philosophy at Cleveland State University and wrote the chapter 'Grade Anarchy in the Philosophy Classroom' in 'Ungrading' https://schultzbergin.xyz/about/

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