#44 Life A La Carte: School Choice, Segregation and Gentrification in an Unequal City
Sociologist Carla Shedd steps into the Have You Heard studio to talk about the complicated interplay between school choice, segregation and gentrification in an unequal city.
21 Juni 201830min
#43 Teaching Machines: The Dream of Automating the Teaching Profession Goes Way Back
Have You Heard talks to Audrey Watters, journalist and expert in all things #edtech, about "teaching machines," and the long (and almost completely ignored) history of efforts to automate the teaching...
5 Juni 201831min
#42: Wisconsin Wakes Up: Signs of Spring in a Scorched-Earth State
Nearly a decade has passed since Scott Walker took on teachers and other public employees in Wisconsin, virtually eliminating their right to engage in collective bargaining. So what's the state of the...
21 Maj 201827min
#41 Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education?
What does the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868 have to do with the wave of teacher walkouts sweeping the country today? More than you might think! Law professor Derek Black steps into the Ha...
1 Maj 201830min
#40 Takeover: What's Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?
Have You Heard looks at what's behind state takeovers of school districts. As guest Domingo Morel explains, laws authorizing states to take over urban districts appeared as a direct response to Black ...
18 Apr 201828min
#39 Education Research that “Counts”: the Rise of Quantitative Methodology
Have You Heard discusses the rise of the "data boyz," the quantitative methodologists who increasingly determine what counts--and what doesn't--in education research. Special guest: UC Berkeley econom...
3 Apr 201825min
#38: 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike
Have You Heard talks to teachers in West Virginia (lots of them!) about the strike that shuttered schools in the Mountain State for nine days - and what they think teachers in other states can learn f...
16 Mars 201823min
#37: Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests
Student walkouts, strikes and protests have a long history of forcing real political change. We talk to historian Jon Zimmerman about what today's student protesters can learn from previous generation...
1 Mars 201823min
