#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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 202344min
#148 Youth Power
Young people, including students who aren't even old enough to vote, had a major impact in the midterm elections. In this episode, we meet some high school activists who are making their power felt, b...
5 Jan 202333min
#147 The Big Reveal
Supposed exposes about schools-gone-bad are a staple of US education discourse. But the COVID era and the waning of school accountability have given the “rhetoric of reveal” new life and potency. Spec...
8 Des 202236min
#146 Another Border: How Immigrant Families Navigate Higher Education
The story of college success in the US often conflates distance with quality and separation from family and community as a rite of passage. But when Corinne Kentor, the runner up in our 2022 Grad Stud...
17 Nov 202229min
#145 How the Critical Race Theory Narrative Took Hold
Accusations that schools were indoctrinating children via something called Critical Race Theory seemed to come out of nowhere. By the summer of 2021, legislators across the country were rushing to ena...
27 Okt 202234min
