#180 The Education Wars
To celebrate the release of The Education Wars, we’ve gathered a cast of thousands to help bring the book to life. Our special guests help us understand what’s driving the intense push to privatize sc...
2 Jul 202436min
#179 School Integration Made Kids Less Conservative
Students who lived through court-ordered desegregation in the South grew up to become less conservative, more tolerant adults. That’s the finding of provocative research from education scholar Mark Ch...
20 Jun 202434min
#178 Turning Down the Temperature
Raise your hand if you think that all of the partisan rancor over public education is bad for kids? That’s the premise of Braver Angels, a citizen’s group that aims to make America less crazy by getti...
30 Mai 202440min
#177 The Opposite of Privatization is Publicization
Market-based education reform may be on the wane, but what’s the alternative? Our guest, Jonathan Gyurko, author of the provocative new book Publicization, argues that public education advocates need ...
16 Mai 202440min
#176 The Idaho Exception
Private school vouchers flamed out in Idaho this legislative session. So how did Idahoans succeed in saying ‘no thanks’ to a controversial and expensive policy program that is now on the books in one ...
30 Apr 202442min
#175 Special Education is Under Threat
From huge voucher programs that shift funding to private schools that don’t have to accept kids with disabilities to a backlash against funding, special education and the students who rely on it are n...
9 Apr 202449min
#174 Religious Charter Schools are Coming. Be Worried.
Last year Oklahoma approved the nation’s first tax-payer funded religious charter school. It won’t be the last, warns Rachel Laser of Americans United for Church and State. We’re joined by Laser and t...
19 Mar 202440min
#173 Did You Hear the One About the Skills Gap?
For decades we’ve been told that there is an urgent looming skills gap, and that unless our education system churns out more STEM grads, economic disaster looms. But what if it’s not true? In a provoc...
29 Feb 202440min
