#89 States of Shock: the Coming Budget Calamity
A looming budget calamity worse than the Great Recession could mean mass teacher layoffs and deep cuts to school spending. Have You Heard previews the bleak budget forecast, how it can be averted, and...
21 Maj 202034min
#88 The Right to Read
Have You Heard digs into the recent - and surprising - decision by a federal court declaring that there is in fact a constitutional right to education. One catch: the court defined that right very nar...
7 Maj 202037min
#87 Access Denied: Why Don't We Have Internet for All?
The gaps between the Internet haves and have-nots have never been more glaring. Christopher Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance helps us understand the origins of our digital divide and ...
23 Apr 202034min
#86 You’ve Got Questions. We Have Answers
Have You Heard opens the proverbial phone lines to hear what listeners want to know about education in a time of pandemic. And an all-star cast of experts steps up to provide the answers. The financ...
9 Apr 202030min
#85 Pandemic: School Closures Past, Present, Future
This isn't the first time schools have shuttered in response to a pandemic. Resident education historian Jack Schneider on what we can learn from school closures past. Meanwhile, the absence of school...
23 Mars 202027min
#84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing
Blaming teachers for the woes of US public schools and beyond is as old a pastime as public education itself. Historian Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz takes us through 100 years of teacher blaming and the lo...
5 Mars 202035min
#83 Don’t Mess with Texas’ Schools
Have You Heard heads to fast-growing north Texas to listen in on how support for public education is upending the state's politics. Part of our series on education and politics in 2020, this episode c...
20 Feb 202035min
#82 Milton Friedman’s Day in Court
The raging debate about whether public money should fund private religious education is a very old one. What's new is the increasingly complex education landscape and the mainstreaming of once radical...
6 Feb 202038min
