#148 Youth Power
Young people, including students who aren't even old enough to vote, had a major impact in the midterm elections. In this episode, we meet some high school activists who are making their power felt, b...
5 Jan 202333min
#147 The Big Reveal
Supposed exposes about schools-gone-bad are a staple of US education discourse. But the COVID era and the waning of school accountability have given the “rhetoric of reveal” new life and potency. Spec...
8 Dec 202236min
#146 Another Border: How Immigrant Families Navigate Higher Education
The story of college success in the US often conflates distance with quality and separation from family and community as a rite of passage. But when Corinne Kentor, the runner up in our 2022 Grad Stud...
17 Nov 202229min
#145 How the Critical Race Theory Narrative Took Hold
Accusations that schools were indoctrinating children via something called Critical Race Theory seemed to come out of nowhere. By the summer of 2021, legislators across the country were rushing to ena...
27 Okt 202234min
#144 The Attack on Trans Kids and the Rollback of Rights
GOP-dominated states have seen a blitz of legislation targeting trans students. What’s behind these attacks? While this anti-trans hysteria represents just the latest in a long-line of conservative “p...
11 Okt 202245min
#143 Moving the Goalposts
What if data doesn’t matter? That’s the question that has been weighing on education researcher Josh Cowen. After spending two decades studying school vouchers, Cowen has concluded that the data is to...
22 Sep 202242min
#142: The Great Education Divide
Will Bunch joins us to talk about his impossibly timely new book: After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It. Discussed in this episod...
8 Sep 202240min
#141 How School Privatization Has Undermined Democracy in New Orleans
Have You Heard heads to New Orleans, home to the first all-charter-school system in the country. In a provocative new book, Tulane University political scientist Celeste Lay argues that New Orleans' c...
18 Aug 202242min
