#156 Digging Deep into the Education Wars
Jack and Jennifer sit down with Daniel Denvir, host of the Dig podcast. And ‘dig’ is an accurate description. They go deep into origins of our current education wars, how bipartisan teacher bashing la...
4 Touko 20231h 41min
#155 Teachers Speak Out
We’re joined by four former teachers of the year who are using their ‘teacher voices’ to push back against the tidal wave of legislation limiting what kids can learn and teachers can talk about. They’...
20 Huhti 202351min
#154 High Stakes
Just eight states still require high school students to pass an exit exam in order to graduate. So why did a policy that once commanded bipartisan support fall by the wayside? And what accounts for th...
6 Huhti 202336min
#153 The Assault on Public Education is Escalating
If it feels like the assault on public education is escalating, that’s because it is. Jennifer joins historian Thomas Zimmer, host of the ‘Is this Democracy?’ podcast, to dive deep into the question o...
23 Maalis 20231h 12min
#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think
Two decades ago, phonics fever swept the land as George W. Bush made “scientifically-based reading instruction” a centerpiece of his education agenda. But despite its scale and huge price tag, Bush’s ...
7 Maalis 202348min
#151 Divide, Scatter, Conquer
What does it feel like to be on the receiving end of a conservative plan to ‘take back the schools’? Have You Heard heads to Woodland Park, Colorado to talk to students, parents and teachers about how...
16 Helmi 202345min
#150 U-Turn: Charter Schools Go Private
Are charter schools public or private? A case speeding towards the Supreme Court is likely to settle this age-old dispute once and for all by declaring charters as “non-state actors.” Peltier vs. Char...
2 Helmi 202338min
#149 The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession
The teaching profession is in the worst shape of the past 50 years. That’s according to researchers Melissa Arnold Lyon and Matthew Kraft, who crunched a half century’s worth of data on indicators lik...
19 Tammi 202344min
