Thanks for sharing your ideas! These might be some ways to start and provide proof of concept and evidence.
On your second point: Do you think teachers or districts would be allowed to adopt a new currciulum someone offered them? In Germany, where I am from, that would hardly be possible.
US education is super-decentralized- there’s no national curriculum which makes it hard to generalize. In my experience, individual teachers can’t set the curriculum but have choices within it. For example, a US literature teacher might have to cover certain themes or historical periods but could choose specific readings.
The Ayn Rand Institute offers free books to promote Objectivism, and some US schools teach her novels.
Philosophy courses in US high schools are pretty rare.
Maybe developing relevant lesson plans for statistics or psychology classes and placing them on teacherspayteachers.com would be a good way to gauge interest?
Thanks for sharing your ideas! These might be some ways to start and provide proof of concept and evidence.
On your second point: Do you think teachers or districts would be allowed to adopt a new currciulum someone offered them? In Germany, where I am from, that would hardly be possible.
US education is super-decentralized- there’s no national curriculum which makes it hard to generalize. In my experience, individual teachers can’t set the curriculum but have choices within it. For example, a US literature teacher might have to cover certain themes or historical periods but could choose specific readings.
The Ayn Rand Institute offers free books to promote Objectivism, and some US schools teach her novels.
Philosophy courses in US high schools are pretty rare.
Maybe developing relevant lesson plans for statistics or psychology classes and placing them on teacherspayteachers.com would be a good way to gauge interest?