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Perusall @perusall.com · 31/08/2026

Grades get often looked at, but feedback does not. @dgooblar.bsky.social (Univ. of Iowa) joins our podcast to talk "wise feedback": pair high expectations with specific guidance. Without the guidance, high standards alone can trigger stereotype threat instead of growth. 🎧 www.perusall.com/podcast

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Perusall @perusall.com · 20/08/2026

New episode of Social Learning Amplified! 🎧 Eric Mazur talks with @dgooblar.bsky.social (Univ. of Iowa, author of One Classroom at a Time) about the gap between what we know helps marginalized students learn - and what most equity initiatives actually do. 🎧 www.perusall.com/podcast

Season 4, Episode 4: How to Fix Educational Inequity, One Classroom at a Time with David Gooblar. Social Learning Amplified podcast.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Also, as I've said before, the faculty at large community colleges could totally do the jobs that faculty at Yale do, and a lot of faculty at ivies could not do our jobs for a single semester.

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I just finished @dgooblar.bsky.social's book, One Classroom at a Time, and it's so good I could *cry*. If you're an educator, stop everything else and start reading. Consider sending your provost a copy as a holiday gift. It's just incredible. ✨🥳🥰💜 #HigherEd

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Perusall @perusall.com · 27/10/2025

How can we make college teaching more equitable? Join @dgooblar.bsky.social 's One Classroom at a Time Perusall book event to read, discuss, and share insights with fellow educators and author David Gooblar himself! 📅 Nov 10–Dec 7 → perusall.com/engage (@harvardpress.bsky.social)

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Starting one week from today, you can read my new book alongside other people who care about equity in higher ed. I'll be chiming in, too. Check it out at: Perusall.com/engage

An image promoting a Perusall book event for my book: One Classroom at a Time. Go to perusall.com/engage for more information.

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John Kane @johnkane.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

In today's podcast, @dgooblar.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book, One Classroom at a Time, which provides strategies faculty can use to improve student success and to reduce equity gaps in student outcomes. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/one-classr... @cyberthread.bsky.social

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One Classroom at a Time | Tea for Teaching

Students have varied levels of preparation for traditional types of classes and assessments used in colleges. In this episode, David Gooblar joins us to discuss a variety of instructional strategies t...

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Contrary to much popular opinion, college is not in the information transfer business; we are in the identity formation business." Great essay. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

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Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I think this is a good time to redirect you to this thing I wrote back in January. The problem isn't reading the syllabus on the first day of class. It's that your syllabus sucks! pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/in-praise-...

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In Praise of Reading the Syllabus

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is such a good book, and I can't recommend it highly enough. A great blend of theory and practice, practical yet motivating....it would look good on your bookshelf, I'm just sayin'

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It’s been way too busy around here so I haven’t posted, but…my new book came out last week! It’s called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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One Classroom at a Time — Harvard University Press

Save 25% now with code BTS25.From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US ...

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Look how happy you could be if you order a copy of my new book!

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I've got a new post up at Pedagogy Unbound, previewing the new book. Who is the imaginary student that you design your courses for? pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/imaginary-...

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Imaginary Students

Another preview of One Classroom at a Time

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Viji @vijisathy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Excited to see this one out! I got to read an advance copy and it is a great read. Kudos @dgooblar.bsky.social!

Copy of One classroom at a time on my desk in my office

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I have a new book coming out next month. It's for professors and grad students and administrators who want to make college more equitable. I wrote a thing introducing it here: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/a-new-book

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A New Book

Out on August 12

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I wrote about my opposition to "integration" of AI in literature classes, but I think it applies to most college classes: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/against-ai...

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Against AI in the Literature Classroom

in most college classrooms, actually

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I wrote about Columbia: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/columbia-llp

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Columbia, LLP

I read the news

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I wrote about the first day of class: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/in-praise-...

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In Praise of Reading the Syllabus

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Sharing this again, ICYMI: the neoliberal university is the devil we know. pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/the-air-th...

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The Air That We Breathe

On the shuttering of GWSS at Iowa

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I wrote about the closing of Iowa's Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies Department and what it does and doesn't mean: pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/p/the-air-th...

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The Air That We Breathe

On the shuttering of GWSS at Iowa

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I'm spending time this week with Sheridan Blau's The Literature Workshop and came across "the Goldilocks Assignment."

Sheridan Blau on an assignment called the "Goldilocks Assignment." "It requires that students read through their poetry anthology at home and select three poems to write about in their reading logs and identify for discussion in class: one poem that they judge to be too hard, one that they think too easy, and one that is for them just right."

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 01/01/2025

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?

We would rather talk about literally everything else.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Hi Friends, Pedagogy Unbound is returning this year . . . as a newsletter. Every week I’ll be writing about teaching and universities and equity and much else besides. Read and subscribe at pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com.

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Pedagogy Unbound

Weekly thoughts on college teaching from David Gooblar

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/12/2024

i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

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Opinion | What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party. (Gift Article)

Now is not the time for surrender.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Columbia’s page regretting its decisions in 1968 bears a banner reflecting some of the decisions it is making now. news.columbia.edu/content/new-...

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Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968 when protesters took over University buildings amid discontent about the Vietnam War, racism and the University's proposed expansion into Morningside Park. After a weeklong standoff, New York City Police stormed the campus and arrested more than 700 people. The fallout dogged Columbia for years.

It took decades for the University to recover from those turbulent times. Columbia now has one of the most socio-economically diverse student bodies among its peer institutions. It has added a new campus designed to be open to the community and pursues fields of inquiry unheard of a half-century ago. Columbia is commemorating the 50th anniversary of those long-ago events with a deep dive of scholarship and exhibits chronicling what happened then and its effects today.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

The first two excerpts are from a February 2023 NYT column. The second two are from a NYT column published yesterday. The same columnist -- Pamela Paul -- wrote both. 14 months apart. Just a mind-blowing lack of self-awareness.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

1. defund humanities programs and adjunctify faculty, increase class sizes 2. watch number of majors decline from lack of offerings & the clear message sent by institutions about humanities' value 3. declare "no one is majoring in humanities programs" 4. defund humanities programs again 5. repeat

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I have to prep for class, so I don't have time to give this (predictably awful) NYTMag piece the dressing down it deserves, but: anyone who thinks about mandated diversity statements for more than five seconds can see through the fallacy that they have anything to do with "ideological conformity."

Screenshot of the headline of Stephen L. Carter's piece in the NYT Magazine: "College is All About Curiosity. And That Requires Free Speech: True learning can only happen on campuses where academic freedom is paramount—within and outside the classroom."

Screenshot of this passage from Stephen L. Carter's piece: "Nowadays, I worry that we’re repeating the same mischief, with mandated (or strongly encouraged) “diversity statements” and the like. I’m often told that because I obviously agree with the goals the statements promote, I shouldn’t make a big deal out of them. But this objection misses the point. The “what’s the big deal?” approach puts me in mind of the philosopher Sidney Hook, who in a 1953 essay in The Times argued that an academic who refused to swear to not being a member of the Communist Party was like a chef who refused to say whether he was the one who poisoned the food. Not for a moment did Hook entertain the notion that the hypothetical professor might simply believe, as a matter of principle, that it is wrong to screen the professorate for ideological conformity.

It was wrong then; it is wrong now."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2024

entirely possible that i'm using the new nyt opinon blog to push back on stuff that annoys me in national media www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01...

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Opinion | Trump Isn’t Close to Having a Majority

By any measure, Trump has been a unique electoral loser for the Republican Party.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

There are many perfect details in the brilliant A Thousand and One, but I particularly appreciated the use of this Wu Tang rarity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTK...

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Wu-Tang Clan - Shaolin Brew

Wu-Tang Clan - Shaolin Brew from the 94' St. Ides Tape.Scenes from Jackie Chan's Snake in the Eagles Shaadow.Enjoy ! Peace !

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

If you knew nothing about Charles Bissell and the Wrens before listening to the new Car Colors song, you would still think: here is someone who has spent *years* just overdubbing guitars. carcolors.bandcamp.com/album/old-de...

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Old Death, by car colors

3 track album

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