#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
#156 Digging Deep into the Education Wars
Jack and Jennifer sit down with Daniel Denvir, host of the Dig podcast. And ‘dig’ is an accurate description. They go deep into origins of our current education wars, how bipartisan teacher bashing la...
4 Mai 20231h 41min
#155 Teachers Speak Out
We’re joined by four former teachers of the year who are using their ‘teacher voices’ to push back against the tidal wave of legislation limiting what kids can learn and teachers can talk about. They’...
20 Apr 202351min
#154 High Stakes
Just eight states still require high school students to pass an exit exam in order to graduate. So why did a policy that once commanded bipartisan support fall by the wayside? And what accounts for th...
6 Apr 202336min
#153 The Assault on Public Education is Escalating
If it feels like the assault on public education is escalating, that’s because it is. Jennifer joins historian Thomas Zimmer, host of the ‘Is this Democracy?’ podcast, to dive deep into the question o...
23 Mar 20231h 12min
