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Jonathan Zimmerman

What is your AI policy? A Penn professor explains why he doesn’t have one.

John Fea   |  August 30, 2023

Everywhere you turn these days professors are talking about how to handle students who use ChatGPT to write their papers. Over at The Washington Post, historian Jonathan Zimmerman explains why he doesn’t have a policy on the matter. Here is […]

“Capture the schools”

John Fea   |  August 17, 2022

University of Pennsylvania education historian Jonathan Zimmerman reflects on the wars over history in schools. A taste: Last year, former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon likewise called on right-wing Americans to capture the schools. “The path to save the nation is […]

The scandal of university teaching

John Fea   |  December 11, 2021

Here is Jonathan Zimmerman at Liberties: In 1925, student delegates from twenty colleges met at Wesleyan University to discuss a growing concern on America’s campuses: the poor quality of teaching. They decried dry-as-dust professors who filled up blackboards with irrelevant […]

Are the culture wars in schools worse than ever before?

John Fea   |  September 21, 2021

Historian of education Jonathan Zimmerman thinks so. Here is a taste of the University of Pennsylvania professor’s recent piece at Politico: Steve Bannon is right: The road to saving the nation runs through our schools. The real question is which […]