#28: How Closing Schools Undermines Democracy
Chicago shuttered some 50 schools in 2013. Since then, voter turnout and support for Democrats in the affected neighborhoods has plunged. What's the connection? Have You Heard talks to political scien...
25 Okt 201726min
#27 School Reform TV: The "New" Philanthropists of Public Education
Have You Heard listens in on the recent XQ Superschools extravaganza, the latest big money effort to "rethink" public education. We're joined by Megan Tompkins Stange, author of Policy Patrons: Philan...
11 Okt 201728min
#26 Divided by Design: Race, Neighborhoods, Wealth and Schools
The claim that "your zip code shouldn't determine your education" is made by education experts of every stripe. And yet as Have You Heard guest Richard Rothstein, author of the Color of Law, explains ...
27 Sep 201735min
#25 Big Philanthropy, Small Change: Inside the Gates Foundation's Small Schools Experiment
Bill Gates spent a fortune to remake high schools across the country into small learning communities. Michael Hobbes' Seattle alma mater was one of these, and he takes us deep into the story of his sc...
12 Sep 201733min
#24 Schools Can't Fix Poverty (So Why do We Keep Insisting They Can?)
Have You Heard talks to historian Harvey Kantor about how education came to be seen as THE fix for poverty. Hint: it all starts in the 1960’s with the advent of the Great Society programs. Fast forwar...
29 Aug 201726min
#23: The Mismeasure of Schools: Data, Real Estate and Segregation
In this episode, Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider discuss how test scores and other current metrics distort our picture of school quality, often fostering segregation in the process. What would a...
14 Aug 201727min
#22: The Long Crusade Against Public Schools: A Conversation with Nancy MacLean
Jennifer Berkshire talks to Nancy MacLean, author of the best selling Democracy in Chains, about the Right's long crusade against what they call "government schools."
31 Jul 201725min
#21: 'I Quit' - Teachers Are Leaving and They Want to Tell You Why
In this episode of Have You Heard, we hear from teachers who left their jobs - and wanted to tell the world why. They left "kicking and screaming" as Oklahoma Teacher of the Year Shawn Sheehan explain...
11 Jul 201720min
