Have You Heard

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider talk to Michelle Rhee about the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers, whether the policies she's pushed for have led to teacher shortages, and what's n...

7 Mar 201735min

The idea that schools can be fixed by firing teachers has become a fixation. Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider look at where the idea comes from and hear from three Boston teachers whose schools a...

22 Feb 201742min

The conservative love affair with vouchers dates back decades, held in check only by a skeptical public. Now with the GOP running, well, just about everything, school vouchers are back, baby. Jennifer...

10 Feb 201740min

When Maria Montessori developed a new teaching method for society’s “lost” children in the early 1900s, she had no idea it would become one of the go-to ways rich white parents educate their toddlers....

17 Jan 201712min

When Georgia voters go to the polls, they'll be deciding whether to create a statewide school district to take over troubled schools. But while the question is being sold as a way to help kids, the de...

22 Okt 201615min

Have You Heard heads west to visit a San Francisco high school where ninth grade social studies students are diving deep into a topic that concerns them directly: school lunch. They're part of a new e...

27 Sep 201613min

Have You Heard heads to college campuses to talk to three current and former students. They "get" what researchers are just beginning to understand: that going to college isn't the silver bullet to so...

7 Aug 201614min

Have You Heard revisits the school busing wars that rocked the country in the 1960s and '70s. We talk to historian Matt Delmont, who argues that just about everything you think you know about busing i...

17 Jun 201611min