#116 Not Your Parents’ School Desegregation
Five decades after Boston's bitter battles over busing helped stall the push for school desegregation, the issue is once again a policy priority in Massachusetts. What happened? Chalk it up to a gener...
1 Juli 202134min
#115 Long, Hot Education Summer
Suddenly education is THE hot topic. But where there’s heat, light doesn’t necessarily follow. Jennifer and Jack discuss what’s missing from the coverage of the backlash against Critical Race Theory, ...
16 Juni 202133min
#114 Where Communities Go to College
Community colleges get a bad rap. But recent graduates of Maryland’s Frederick Community College say that stigma is undeserved. These new and soon-to-be-teachers make a powerful case for learning - an...
3 Juni 202135min
#113 The K-12 Culture Wars
The public school culture wars are raging more intensely than at any time since the Reagan era. Fueled by intense political polarization and the continued fallout from pandemic school closures, the cu...
20 Maj 202140min
#112 The Case for Elected School Boards
Inefficient. Ineffective. Outdated. Outmoded. Unrepresentative. Sure, local school boards are deserving of all of these criticisms (and more), but they are also seedbeds of local democracy at a time w...
6 Maj 202137min
#111 State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools
Two decades ago, the Free State Project announced an audacious plan to make New Hampshire a utopia for libertarians. Now one of their central goals - privatizing education - appears within reach. Have...
22 Apr 202141min
#110 Failure to Disrupt. Again
The pandemic gave the education technology industry the opportunity to FINALLY deliver on the bold promises it has been making for decades. What happened instead was just another failure to disrupt, s...
8 Apr 202138min
#109 What They've Lost
Students from Boston tell Have You Heard what they've lost during this year of pandemic learning. Spoiler: what you'll hear bears little resemblance to the discussion of "learning loss" that's atop th...
25 Mars 202139min
