#177 The Opposite of Privatization is Publicization
Market-based education reform may be on the wane, but what’s the alternative? Our guest, Jonathan Gyurko, author of the provocative new book Publicization, argues that public education advocates need ...
16 Touko 202440min
#176 The Idaho Exception
Private school vouchers flamed out in Idaho this legislative session. So how did Idahoans succeed in saying ‘no thanks’ to a controversial and expensive policy program that is now on the books in one ...
30 Huhti 202442min
#175 Special Education is Under Threat
From huge voucher programs that shift funding to private schools that don’t have to accept kids with disabilities to a backlash against funding, special education and the students who rely on it are n...
9 Huhti 202449min
#174 Religious Charter Schools are Coming. Be Worried.
Last year Oklahoma approved the nation’s first tax-payer funded religious charter school. It won’t be the last, warns Rachel Laser of Americans United for Church and State. We’re joined by Laser and t...
19 Maalis 202440min
#173 Did You Hear the One About the Skills Gap?
For decades we’ve been told that there is an urgent looming skills gap, and that unless our education system churns out more STEM grads, economic disaster looms. But what if it’s not true? In a provoc...
29 Helmi 202440min
#172 Off of the Sidelines
In her new book School Moms, education journalist Laura Pappano traces the rise of what she calls the “war moms,” making the case that their emergence has spurred a broad resistance movement in defens...
15 Helmi 202439min
#171 The Damage Done
Public schools are in the throes of multiple slow-moving crises: a teacher exodus, spiking student absenteeism and plunging literacy rates. Yet education reforms implemented as part of the Obama-era ‘...
1 Helmi 202445min
#170 Can We Please Stop Talking About Harvard?
While the media focuses obsessively on Harvard, the state universities that the majority of American students actually attend are under attack. We’re joined by faculty at three universities, all reeli...
18 Tammi 202443min
