#33 Segrenomics: The Long History of Cashing In On Unequal Education
Education reform is often referred to as the "civil rights issue of our time." But what would have happened if "edupreneurs" (like Mark Zuckerberg, Wendy Kopp or Dave Levin) had used their money, infl...
3 Jan 201827min
#32 Class Dismissed: What the 2016 Election Revealed About the Limits of "College for All"
For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have held out "college for all" as the key to social and economic mobility. Have You Heard talks to Joan Williams, author of White Working Class: Overcomin...
19 Dec 201727min
#31 State of the Union: Charter School Teachers Are Organizing
Mihir Garud left a job as a stockbroker to teach personal finance at a Chicago charter school. He's also the treasurer of a union that now represents 25% of charter school teachers in the city. Garud,...
5 Dec 201731min
#30 Teaching Controversy is Controversial (And It Always Has Been)
When questions produce quarrels, it can be easy to blame our current state of politics. But coping with contention is a learned skill—a skill that our schools have been actively avoiding for over a ce...
20 Nov 201730min
#29: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Corporate Education Agenda
"Corporate education agenda" gets thrown around a lot - but what does it actually mean? Have You Heard talks to economist Gordon Lafer, who tracked the state-level legislation backed by the corporat...
8 Nov 201728min
#28: How Closing Schools Undermines Democracy
Chicago shuttered some 50 schools in 2013. Since then, voter turnout and support for Democrats in the affected neighborhoods has plunged. What's the connection? Have You Heard talks to political scien...
25 Okt 201726min
#27 School Reform TV: The "New" Philanthropists of Public Education
Have You Heard listens in on the recent XQ Superschools extravaganza, the latest big money effort to "rethink" public education. We're joined by Megan Tompkins Stange, author of Policy Patrons: Philan...
11 Okt 201728min
#26 Divided by Design: Race, Neighborhoods, Wealth and Schools
The claim that "your zip code shouldn't determine your education" is made by education experts of every stripe. And yet as Have You Heard guest Richard Rothstein, author of the Color of Law, explains ...
27 Sep 201735min
