Crash Course Social Studies Education w/ Raoul Meyer

About this episode

Raoul Meyer discusses the impact of Crash Course videos and the challenges faced by educators in the current cultural climate.

If you've taught or attended a high school course in the last decade, you've probably watched a Crash Course video. Their dozens of playlists on topics from Biology and Environmental Science to Economics and World History hold hundreds of videos and have collected over 2 billion views. Maybe even just hearing the title conjured John Green's urgent cadence and the characteristic cartoon aesthetic in your mind, or the show's outro, if you couldn't hit the pause button fast enough, where John thanks the producer, the graphics team, and mentions, "The show is written by my high school history teacher, Raoul Meyer…" Today, Mister Meyer not only continues to teach, but earlier this year reached out to me about a new film project he's working on with his brother Luke, scheduled for 2026 release, tentatively titled THE TEACHERS PROJECT. It's described as "a compelling, character-driven journey into the lives of American educators as they navigate the intensifying culture war that has enveloped the nation's schools since 2020. As political battles over sanctioned ideas, books, and lesson plans range from national headlines to local school boards, the film reveals the devastating…

People in this episode

Host: Human Restoration Project

Guest: Raoul Meyer

Topics covered

• education
• history teaching
• culture war
• American educators
• Crash Course

Keywords

• Crash Course
• Raoul Meyer
• education
• history teaching
• culture war
• American educators

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Crash Course, THE TEACHERS PROJECT

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