#193 All Politics is Local
Organizing in defense of public education at the local level has never been more vital. And yet in an era when even the most local elections are now nationalized, electing pro-public education candida...
20 Feb 202543min
#192 There’s No Such Thing as a Kinesthetic Learner
It’s common knowledge that every student has a learning style: visual, auditory or kinesthetic. But what if those classifications are not just inaccurate but dangerous? That’s the argument made by edu...
4 Feb 202540min
#191 These Conservative Texans Oppose School Vouchers
Vouchers are not conservative. That’s what we heard again and again when we talked to Texans who consider themselves Republicans but oppose their party’s top education priority. We hear from rural Tex...
22 Jan 202550min
#190 Degrees of Separation
Our biggest political divide these days isn’t race or gender but education - and that division is only getting worse. We talk to the co-author of a new book that offers the single best explanation we’...
8 Jan 202543min
#189 What’s Driving the Republican Party’s Radical Shift on Education?
For decades the Republican mantra on public schools has been to make them ‘business like,’ driven by the belief that strong schools = a strong economy. No more. Today’s top priorities for the GOP are ...
19 Dec 202439min
#188 What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Public Education?
Donald Trump’s return to office is likely to have profound implications for the nation’s public schools. In this episode we start to grapple with five major policy areas that are likely to be impacted...
5 Dec 202445min
#187 The Politics of Disruption
Schools are in for more chaos and conflict, whatever specific policies are enacted by a second Trump Administration. We talk to two scholars about just how much the politics of disruption are costing,...
21 Nov 202445min
#186 What is High School For?
Massachusetts voters will soon weigh in on whether to abandon the state’s de facto high school exit exam. That prospect has pitted elected officials and business leaders against teachers and their uni...
30 Okt 202444min
