How to Fix Educational Inequity, One Classroom at a Time

In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur talks with David Gooblar, associate professor of English and director of General Education Literature at the University of Iowa, about his latest book, One Classroom at a Time. David takes us through how his research exposed a gap between what we know helps marginalized students learn and what most equity initiatives actually do, and why he came to see teaching itself as an act of social justice. David and Eric explore why grades so often override meaningful feedback, and how starting conversations with shared goals rather than methods can win over skeptical colleagues. They look at what institutions need to change, from tenure incentives to class sizes, to back up equity commitments with real structural action in a grounded, research-driven case for putting students, not systems, at the center of teaching. Get One Classroom at a Time: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297487