Have You Heard
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Episodes: 218
Jun 24, 2024
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Occasionally funny and periodically informative, Have You Heard features journalist Jennifer Berkshire and scholar Jack Schneider as they explore the age-old quest to finally fix the nation's public schools, one policy issue at a time.
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#218 When the Circus Came to Town
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May 07, 2026 |
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#217 Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Vision for Schools
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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#216 The Blue State Blues
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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#215 The Fight Over Sex Education
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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#214 These Conservatives Are Furious About School Vouchers
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#213 The Kids are Alright
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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#212 We’re at each other’s throats. Schools can help.
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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#211 Silicon Valley’s Vision for Schools is Trapped in a Cold War Fantasy
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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#210 The Curious Case of Kindergarten
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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#209 Make Education Great Again
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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#208 ‘A Lifetime of Hardship’
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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HY#207 Under the Influence
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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#206 Race Science is Back. It Never Went Away.
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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#205 Schools as Sorting Machines
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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#204 Collision Course
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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#203 Power in Numbers
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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#202 College Inside, College Outside
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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#201 Use It Or Lose It
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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#200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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#199 Dangerous Learning, Dangerous Times
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May 29, 2025 |
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#198 Ethnic Studies ‘Works.’ Does That Even Matter Anymore?
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May 13, 2025 |
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#197 Taking America Back (to a Less Educated Past)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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#196 The Best Schools You’ve Never Heard Of
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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#195 Public Education is on the Precipice
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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#194 Letter to a Trump Voter
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#193 All Politics is Local
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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#192 There’s No Such Thing as a Kinesthetic Learner
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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#191 These Conservative Texans Oppose School Vouchers
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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#190 Degrees of Separation
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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#189 What’s Driving the Republican Party’s Radical Shift on Education?
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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#188 What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Public Education?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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#187 The Politics of Disruption
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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#186 What is High School For?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#185 Project 1825
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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#184 Closing Time
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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#183 Change of Heart
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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#182 Cut, Fire, Close
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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#181 It Takes a Village (No, Really)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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#180 The Education Wars
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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#179 School Integration Made Kids Less Conservative
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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#178 Turning Down the Temperature
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May 30, 2024 |
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#177 The Opposite of Privatization is Publicization
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May 16, 2024 |
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#176 The Idaho Exception
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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#175 Special Education is Under Threat
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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#174 Religious Charter Schools are Coming. Be Worried.
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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#173 Did You Hear the One About the Skills Gap?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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#172 Off of the Sidelines
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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#171 The Damage Done
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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#170 Can We Please Stop Talking About Harvard?
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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#169 Can the Democrats Win on Education?
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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#168 Coming to America
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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#167 Public Education Needs More Democracy, Not Less
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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#166 The School Voucher Scam
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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#165 The Politics of State Takeovers
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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#164 Plutocratic Philanthropists are Bad for Schools–and Democracy
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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#163 How to Get Ahead in School Without Really Learning
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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#162 State of Emergency
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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#161 AI Is Going to Upend Public Education. Or Maybe Not
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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#160 There’s No Way to Win the School Culture Wars
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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#159 The John Birch Society was the Original Moms for Liberty
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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#158 If We Want to Save Public Education, We’ve Got to Talk About It Differently
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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#157 Stopping the Privatization Train
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May 24, 2023 |
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#156 Digging Deep into the Education Wars
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May 04, 2023 |
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#155 Teachers Speak Out
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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#154 High Stakes
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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#153 The Assault on Public Education is Escalating
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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#151 Divide, Scatter, Conquer
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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#150 U-Turn: Charter Schools Go Private
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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#149 The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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#148 Youth Power
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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#147 The Big Reveal
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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#146 Another Border: How Immigrant Families Navigate Higher Education
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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#145 How the Critical Race Theory Narrative Took Hold
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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#144 The Attack on Trans Kids and the Rollback of Rights
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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#143 Moving the Goalposts
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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#142: The Great Education Divide
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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#141 How School Privatization Has Undermined Democracy in New Orleans
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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#140 The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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#139 The Original 'Moms for Liberty'
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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#138 A Reckoning for Rural Schools
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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#137 The Rise of the Economists
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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#136 State of Revolt
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May 19, 2022 |
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#135 Everything Old is New Again
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May 05, 2022 |
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#134 Where the Democrats Went Wrong
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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#133 What Should Schools Do About Climate Change?
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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#132 The Enemy Within
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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#131 School’s Choice
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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#130 Zombie Ideas in Education Reform
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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#129 Friends and Enemies
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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#128 Confessions of a School Reformer
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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#127 Teachers Are Being Tested Like Never Before
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#126 What Ever Happened to the Public Good?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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#125 What the Pandemic Has Meant for Special Education
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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#124 Confronting the Backlash
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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#123 Schooling the Workforce
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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#122 A Mind at Work: Remembering Mike Rose
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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#121 History Test: the Tangled Roots of Standardized Testing
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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#120 How Pronouns Became Landmines: The Conservative War on Trans Youth
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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#119 The Impact of HBCU-Trained Teachers on Black Student Achievement
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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#118 Democracy and Public Education: A Future in Peril
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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#117 College Behind Bars: the Case for Higher Education in Prison
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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#116 Not Your Parents’ School Desegregation
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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#115 Long, Hot Education Summer
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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#114 Where Communities Go to College
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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#113 The K-12 Culture Wars
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May 20, 2021 |
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#112 The Case for Elected School Boards
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May 06, 2021 |
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#111 State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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#110 Failure to Disrupt. Again
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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#109 What They've Lost
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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#108 Kids as Customers
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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#107 Learning to Earn
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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#106 School Rankings, Ratings, and Wrongdoing
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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#105 Reopening a Can of Worms
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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#104 A New Secretary for the Department of Education
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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#103 Reaganland: Public Education and America’s Right Turn
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#102: Politics in the Zoom Room
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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#101 Merchants of Doubt
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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#100 A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#99 There’s No Democracy without Public Education
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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#98: The Rich and the Rest
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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#97 How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#96 Mind the Gap: Why It’s Time to Stop Talking about the Achievement Gap
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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#95 Contract Talk: New Research on Teachers Unions
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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#94 Pandemic Pods: Parents, Privilege, Power and Politics
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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#93: Making the Grade
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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#92: Is it Time to Cancel Teach Like a Champion?
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#91 Arrested Development: How Police Ended Up in Schools
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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#90 Mail Order Schools: the Past and Present of Distance Learning
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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#89 States of Shock: the Coming Budget Calamity
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May 21, 2020 |
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#88 The Right to Read
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May 07, 2020 |
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#87 Access Denied: Why Don't We Have Internet for All?
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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#86 You’ve Got Questions. We Have Answers
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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#85 Pandemic: School Closures Past, Present, Future
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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#84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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#83 Don’t Mess with Texas’ Schools
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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#82 Milton Friedman’s Day in Court
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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#81 History Wars: How Politics Shape Textbooks
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#80 The Rural Schools Conundrum
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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#79 The PISA Problem
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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#78 Flip the Board: Denver and the Politics of School Reform
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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#77 Equity in Theory, Privilege in Practice: Race and the Quest for "Good Schools"
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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#76 Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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#75 Storefront School: Excavating A Radical Education Experiment in Harlem
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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#74 Kochland: Inside the Kochs' Vision for Public Education
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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#73 Betsy DeVos: the Musical!
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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#72 The Back to School Episode
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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#71 Anatomy of a Charter School Fraud
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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#70 The Case for Making College Free
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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#69 Progressive Charter Schools vs. the Education Marketplace
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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#68 Michigan’s School Choice Mess
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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#67 White Homebuyers, Black Neighborhoods and the Future of Urban Schools
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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#66 2020 Vision: Democratic Presidential Candidates and Education
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May 30, 2019 |
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#65 What an Elite Private School Teaches about the Future of For-Profit Education
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May 16, 2019 |
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#64 Different Strokes for Different Folks?
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May 02, 2019 |
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#63 Unmaking the Ontario Model: Austerity Comes to Canada
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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#62 Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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#61 Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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#60 The Rise of the “Portfolio” Model for Schools
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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#59 University, Inc.: Capitalism, Philanthropy and Higher Education
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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#58 The LA Teacher Strike: Back to the Future of Education Reform
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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#57 These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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#56 The Farce of School Reform
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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#55 Unreal Results in Education Research
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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#54 Closing Time: In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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#53 The Zombie: Undying Attacks on Ed Schools
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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#52: Teachers are Running for Office - And to Save Public Education
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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#51 Win/Win: Why Billionaire Philanthropists are Bad at School Reform
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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#50 On the Bus: What One City Can Teach Us About School Desegregation
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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#49 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Selling Short Cuts in American Education
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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#48 A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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#47 Janus and the Future of Teachers Unions
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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#46 The Problem with Fear-Based School Reform
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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#45 Why the Implosion of a Silicon Valley Startup is a Cautionary Tale for Education “Disruptors”
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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#44 Life A La Carte: School Choice, Segregation and Gentrification in an Unequal City
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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#43 Teaching Machines: The Dream of Automating the Teaching Profession Goes Way Back
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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#42: Wisconsin Wakes Up: Signs of Spring in a Scorched-Earth State
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May 21, 2018 |
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#41 Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education?
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May 01, 2018 |
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#40 Takeover: What's Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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#39 Education Research that “Counts”: the Rise of Quantitative Methodology
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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#38: 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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#37: Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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#36 The Skills Trap
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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#35 One Year In: Reflections on the DeVos Education Agenda
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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#34: What Gets Taught at Voucher Schools?
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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#33 Segrenomics: The Long History of Cashing In On Unequal Education
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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#32 Class Dismissed: What the 2016 Election Revealed About the Limits of "College for All"
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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#31 State of the Union: Charter School Teachers Are Organizing
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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#30 Teaching Controversy is Controversial (And It Always Has Been)
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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#29: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Corporate Education Agenda
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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#28: How Closing Schools Undermines Democracy
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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#27 School Reform TV: The "New" Philanthropists of Public Education
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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#26 Divided by Design: Race, Neighborhoods, Wealth and Schools
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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#25 Big Philanthropy, Small Change: Inside the Gates Foundation's Small Schools Experiment
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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#24 Schools Can't Fix Poverty (So Why do We Keep Insisting They Can?)
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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#23: The Mismeasure of Schools: Data, Real Estate and Segregation
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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#22: The Long Crusade Against Public Schools: A Conversation with Nancy MacLean
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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#21: 'I Quit' - Teachers Are Leaving and They Want to Tell You Why
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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#20: Putting the 'i' in School: Personalized Learning and the Disruption of Public Education
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Jun 24, 2017 |
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#19: Buying Influence: Big Money and School Board Elections
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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#18 DNA Test: the Ancestry of Charter Schools
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May 23, 2017 |
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#17: Where Have All the Black Teachers Gone?
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May 05, 2017 |
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#16: Truth in Edvertising
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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#15: Tax Credit Scholarships: A Laundromat for Tax Dollars
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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#14 For Profit U: Tressie McMillan Cottom on the rise of for-profit colleges
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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#13 - School Choice Meltdown in Motown
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Mar 11, 2017 |
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#12 Rate My Teacher: A Conversation with Michelle Rhee
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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#11: You're Fired
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Feb 22, 2017 |
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#10 Vouchers: a Love Story
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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#9 - Montessori Schools: They're Not Just for Rich White Kids Anymore
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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#8 - Georgia's Got Something on Its Mind
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Oct 22, 2016 |
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#7 How Ethnic Studies Works
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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#6 - The Middle Class Myth: Why College Doesn't Solve Poverty
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Aug 07, 2016 |
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#5 - Why Busing Failed
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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#4 - "If You Have a Voice, Use It:" Students in Lawrence, MA Write Their Future
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May 02, 2016 |
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#3 - Kindergarten Suspensions: Yes. It's a Thing.
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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#2 - A Rebellion in New Orleans
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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#1 - "These Tests Will Go:" The Opt-Out Movement in Urban Philadelphia
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Jan 26, 2016 |