#100 A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Our book, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, is finally (almost) out. To celebrate its publication, and the 100th episode of Have You Heard, we asked an expert—a former lobbyist for a conservative free-m...
29 Okt 202036min
#99 There’s No Democracy without Public Education
Have You Heard talks with legal scholar Derek Black about his new book Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy. Despite the title (not to mention the charred pencil...
15 Okt 202030min
#98: The Rich and the Rest
There is a vast gulf between the public education priorities of most voters and the favored policies of the very wealthy. Nowhere is that gap more visible than in Arizona, where support for public edu...
1 Okt 202034min
#97 How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos
A consensus between Republicans and centrist Democrats around charter schools has been at the very center of education policy for the past three decades. Guest David Menefee-Libey joins us to talk abo...
17 Sep 202037min
#96 Mind the Gap: Why It’s Time to Stop Talking about the Achievement Gap
The achievement gap has driven education reform for the past twenty years. Guest David Stevens says it’s time to stop talking about the achievement gap and focus instead on the “headwinds” and “tailwi...
3 Sep 202035min
#95 Contract Talk: New Research on Teachers Unions
Teachers unions are the biggest impediments to fixing schools and improving student achievement. That mantra has been at the heart of school reform efforts for more than a decade - but is it true? Edu...
20 Aug 202032min
#94 Pandemic Pods: Parents, Privilege, Power and Politics
Private pandemic “pods” are the latest edu-craze to sweep the land. But turns out there’s nothing new about privileged parents fleeing the public school system—or using the threat of departure as leve...
6 Aug 202045min
#93: Making the Grade
When the pandemic shuttered schools, it also put grades on hold. But suspending A-F grading also exposed the underlying flaws of a high-stakes system. Historian Ethan Hutt joins us to discuss the orig...
23 Jul 202049min
