#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
#32 Class Dismissed: What the 2016 Election Revealed About the Limits of "College for All"
For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have held out "college for all" as the key to social and economic mobility. Have You Heard talks to Joan Williams, author of White Working Class: Overcomin...
19 Des 201727min
#31 State of the Union: Charter School Teachers Are Organizing
Mihir Garud left a job as a stockbroker to teach personal finance at a Chicago charter school. He's also the treasurer of a union that now represents 25% of charter school teachers in the city. Garud,...
5 Des 201731min
#30 Teaching Controversy is Controversial (And It Always Has Been)
When questions produce quarrels, it can be easy to blame our current state of politics. But coping with contention is a learned skill—a skill that our schools have been actively avoiding for over a ce...
20 Nov 201730min
#29: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Corporate Education Agenda
"Corporate education agenda" gets thrown around a lot - but what does it actually mean? Have You Heard talks to economist Gordon Lafer, who tracked the state-level legislation backed by the corporat...
8 Nov 201728min
