#84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing
Blaming teachers for the woes of US public schools and beyond is as old a pastime as public education itself. Historian Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz takes us through 100 years of teacher blaming and the lo...
5 Mar 202035min
#83 Don’t Mess with Texas’ Schools
Have You Heard heads to fast-growing north Texas to listen in on how support for public education is upending the state's politics. Part of our series on education and politics in 2020, this episode c...
20 Feb 202035min
#82 Milton Friedman’s Day in Court
The raging debate about whether public money should fund private religious education is a very old one. What's new is the increasingly complex education landscape and the mainstreaming of once radical...
6 Feb 202038min
#81 History Wars: How Politics Shape Textbooks
What are students learning about American history in these hyper-polarized times? That’s what New York Times reporter Dana Goldstein wanted to know. And so she set off on an epic reading adventure: 43...
23 Jan 202031min
#80 The Rural Schools Conundrum
Have You Heard heads to rural Wisconsin to investigate a puzzle. Communities in the "reddest" parts of the state keep voting to hike their own taxes to pay for schools, even as they elect and re-elect...
9 Jan 202032min
#79 The PISA Problem
It’s time to junk the international assessment of 15-year-olds known as the PISA test says scholar Oren Pizmony-Levy. And Have You Heard announces big plans for 2020. The financial support of listene...
19 Des 201929min
#78 Flip the Board: Denver and the Politics of School Reform
For more than a decade, Denver has been a model for a brand of school reform centered on closing low-performing schools, opening charter schools and rewarding teachers for boosting student test scores...
5 Des 201942min
#77 Equity in Theory, Privilege in Practice: Race and the Quest for "Good Schools"
Why do progressive parents so often act to preserve their own privilege even as they say they're committed to challenging inequality? We talk to Margaret Hagerman, author of White Kids: Growing Up wit...
14 Nov 201935min
