#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
#76 Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice
The Democratic Party seems to be backing away from its decades-long embrace of charter schools. While pundits cite the influence of teachers unions within the party, our guest Jon Valant says more com...
31 Okt 201935min
#75 Storefront School: Excavating A Radical Education Experiment in Harlem
Central Harlem in the late 1960's was home to a radical, and little known, experiment in alternative education. Historian Barry Goldenberg, runner up in the Have You Heard Graduate Student Research Co...
17 Okt 201934min
#74 Kochland: Inside the Kochs' Vision for Public Education
We talk with Christopher Leonard, author of the new bestseller Kochland, about the Koch family's vision for public education. (Hint: it doesn't involve the word 'public'...)
3 Okt 201934min
