#164 Plutocratic Philanthropists are Bad for Schools–and Democracy
The power of plutocrats to shape and limit public debate is on the increase. That’s bad for K-12 education and for democracy, argues Nora Reikosky, the winner of the 2023 Have You Heard Graduate Stude...
5 Okt 202335min
#163 How to Get Ahead in School Without Really Learning
Get the right credentials to get ahead in the world. For many students and their families that IS the purpose of K-12 education. Even students who don’t have their sights set on selective colleges oft...
21 Sep 202340min
#162 State of Emergency
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper recently declared a state of emergency for public schools in that state, warning that the GOP-controlled legislature aims to “choke the life out of public education....
29 Aug 202349min
#161 AI Is Going to Upend Public Education. Or Maybe Not
AI is about to upend teaching and learning. So tell us the techno optimists who have made essentially the same claim about every technological innovation, dating back to the film strip. Our guest, his...
8 Aug 202345min
#160 There’s No Way to Win the School Culture Wars
A wide segment of Americans now view public schools as partisan. That’s a major problem, argues historian Johann Neem, because the project of public education depends on ALL Americans seeing themselve...
18 Jul 202338min
#159 The John Birch Society was the Original Moms for Liberty
Decades before Moms for Liberty launched a crusade to liberate schools from “indoctrination,” the John Birch Society introduced similar rhetoric and tactics. Have You Heard is joined by historian Matt...
22 Jun 202340min
#158 If We Want to Save Public Education, We’ve Got to Talk About It Differently
For decades, the idea that education is the primary driver of economic opportunity has held sway. The education myth, as our guest Jon Shelton describes it, has attained the status of common sense, ca...
8 Jun 202337min
#157 Stopping the Privatization Train
School privatization has been on a roll this year. But then the ‘fund students not systems’ express hit a wall in states like Kansas, Georgia and Idaho. So what happened? We talk to public education a...
24 Mai 202351min
