#224 Order in the Court
Traditional student discipline is broken. That’s the premise of an exciting experiment in student-run restorative justice taking place at Attleboro High School in southeastern Massachusetts. Students ...
17 Sep 34min
#223 Budget Committee!
In this special episode, we’re showcasing a brand new education podcast: Budget Committee! School finance is complicated, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In their new show, school finance whispere...
27 Aug 41min
#222 On the Clock
Despite working considerably more hours than their colleagues in other countries, teachers here say they don’t have enough time to do their jobs, leading to high rates of stress, burnout and teacher t...
6 Aug 43min
#221 Conservative Civic Centers Are All the Rage
Civic centers are all the rage on red state campuses. Designed to reclaim and “save” the humanities, reinstate ideological diversity in higher ed, and bring back the Great Books, these centers are gro...
16 Juli 35min
#220 Waste, Fraud and Abuse
Waste, fraud and abuse. That’s how education policy expert Jon Valant characterizes the new federal voucher program that was tucked into Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill last year. Valant walks us throu...
11 Juni 40min
#219 Shutting Down
A steep decline in the birthrate means fewer students, and for a growing number of communities that means closing schools. We head to New Orleans where the ‘demographic cliff’ poses a unique problem f...
21 Maj 43min
#218 When the Circus Came to Town
Sarasota Florida was supposed to be the new capital of Magamerica. But a funny thing happened on the way to making this coastal community and its school board the epicenter of right wing activism. A w...
7 Maj 45min
#217 Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Vision for Schools
As Silicon Valley’s tentacles reach ever more deeply into the nation’s public schools, a provocative new book sounds an emphatic “stop”! We talk to Tim Scott, author of Schooling for Silicon Valley, a...
24 Apr 41min
