AEI's Rick Hess and USC's Pedro Noguera discuss how schools should teach about Martin Luther King, Jr., the events of January 6, and voting rights. The two converse about how teachers can avoid teaching kids what to think, whether the way MLK is taught in schools distorts who he really was, and more.<a href="https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/a-search-for-common-ground-conversations-about-the-toughest-questions-in-k-12-education/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more</a> about Rick and Pedro’s book, A Search for Common Ground: Conversations about the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education.

Ukraine, Russia, and civics education

AEI Education’s Rick Hess and USC Rossier School of Education Dean Pedro Noguera, who often fall on different sides of the ideological aisle, push past posturing and polarization to search for understanding and common ground when it comes to the nation’s toughest education questions. Each month, the two talk through the pressing education issues of the moment.