#124 Confronting the Backlash
Students in Southlake, Texas pushed school district officials to do something about racism in the schools. Then came the backlash. We hear what’s really at stake in the battles over Southlake’s school...
4 Nov 202141min
#123 Schooling the Workforce
Vocational education has been rebranded and retooled as career and technical education. But beneath CTE's 21st century veneer lurks an age-old problem: tailoring students' education too closely to the...
21 Okt 202144min
#122 A Mind at Work: Remembering Mike Rose
In this special episode, Have You Heard remembers the extraordinary Mike Rose. Special guests Erika Kitzmiller, Janelle Scott, Chris Buttimer, Michael Moses and Rema Reynolds help us recall Mike as a ...
7 Okt 202142min
#121 History Test: the Tangled Roots of Standardized Testing
The claim that standardized testing has racist - even eugenicist - roots is oft repeated these days. But is it true? In an episode guaranteed to please no one, friend of the show Ethan Hutt walks us t...
24 Sep 202142min
#120 How Pronouns Became Landmines: The Conservative War on Trans Youth
The culture wars found a new target in 2021: trans youth. More than 100 laws were proposed to restrict the rights of trans individuals, especially kids. In this episode of Have You Heard, we’re joined...
9 Sep 202135min
#119 The Impact of HBCU-Trained Teachers on Black Student Achievement
Black students who are taught by teachers who attended an Historically Black College or University or HBCU fare better than their peers. That’s what Lavar Edmonds found as he dug into a trove of data ...
26 Aug 202133min
#118 Democracy and Public Education: A Future in Peril
Why are the same states that are rolling back democracy also intent on dismantling public education? We assembled an all-star cast to get some answers. Special guests: Derek Black, author of Schoolhou...
12 Aug 202151min
#117 College Behind Bars: the Case for Higher Education in Prison
If you know anything about higher education in prison, it's that these programs "pay off" for taxpayers in the form of tax savings and lower rates of recidivism. But the economic justification for col...
15 Jul 202135min
