#40 Takeover: What's Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?
Have You Heard looks at what's behind state takeovers of school districts. As guest Domingo Morel explains, laws authorizing states to take over urban districts appeared as a direct response to Black ...
18 Apr 201828min
#39 Education Research that “Counts”: the Rise of Quantitative Methodology
Have You Heard discusses the rise of the "data boyz," the quantitative methodologists who increasingly determine what counts--and what doesn't--in education research. Special guest: UC Berkeley econom...
3 Apr 201825min
#38: 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike
Have You Heard talks to teachers in West Virginia (lots of them!) about the strike that shuttered schools in the Mountain State for nine days - and what they think teachers in other states can learn f...
16 Mar 201823min
#37: Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests
Student walkouts, strikes and protests have a long history of forcing real political change. We talk to historian Jon Zimmerman about what today's student protesters can learn from previous generation...
1 Mar 201823min
#36 The Skills Trap
For working class students, "college" is defined as skills building and workforce development. But that's a narrow and ultimately limiting view of what higher education is for, guest Mike Rose tells u...
13 Feb 201825min
#35 One Year In: Reflections on the DeVos Education Agenda
It's been one year since Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos squeaked into office via a tie-breaking vote courtesy of VP Mike Pence. Jack and Jennifer listened, read and watched their way through a yea...
30 Jan 201825min
#34: What Gets Taught at Voucher Schools?
We talk to Rebecca Klein, education reporter for the Huffington Post, about her recent series on what students at voucher schools - private schools, overwhelmingly religious, that receive taxpayer dol...
16 Jan 201824min
#33 Segrenomics: The Long History of Cashing In On Unequal Education
Education reform is often referred to as the "civil rights issue of our time." But what would have happened if "edupreneurs" (like Mark Zuckerberg, Wendy Kopp or Dave Levin) had used their money, infl...
3 Jan 201827min
