Ethan L. Hutt

May 13, 2024 | voegelinview.com | Jack Schneider |Ethan L. Hutt |Tom Marven

The infamous anecdote regarding French television executive Patrick Le Lay comes to me via the philosopher Bernard Stiegler. According to Stiegler, Le Lay had stated publicly that his primary job was to create an audience for commercials, and that this was the purpose of television shows.

Dec 21, 2023 | nepc.colorado.edu | Jack Schneider |Ethan L. Hutt |YearBy Year

Earlier this year, the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education-news outlet, published a piece by J.W. Traphagan, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about what happened when he decided to stop taking attendance and grading students in a course on Zen. Conventional wisdom assumed students wouldn’t show up and they would all get A’s, which isn’t at all what happened.

Nov 16, 2023 | aei.org | Nat Malkus |Ethan L. Hutt |Jack Schneider

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Ethan Hutt and Jack Schneider about their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To).

Sep 21, 2023 | nepc.colorado.edu | YearBy Year |Jack Schneider |Ethan L. Hutt

In the early 20th Century, K-12 schools began developing and implementing systems to grade students, with many of them adopting what was already in use in some colleges and universities — the A-F system. Students have been complaining about them ever since, and education historians have noted their virtues as well as their many deficiencies. In their new book, “Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)” Jack Schneider and Ethan L.