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The Education Exchange

A weekly podcast highlighting education policy news, hosted by Paul E. Peterson, Senior editor of Education Next

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Ep. 50 - July 9, 2018 - LAUSD at the Edge of a Fiscal Cliff

Ep. 50 - July 9, 2018 - LAUSD at the Edge of a Fiscal Cliff

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) faces a debt of between $11-15 billion. How did the school district get ... Read more

9 Jul 2018

18mins

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Ep. 56 - Aug. 20, 2018 - Boston Public Schools in Transition

Ep. 56 - Aug. 20, 2018 - Boston Public Schools in Transition

The Boston Public Schools will be led by an interim superintendent this fall, since former superintendent Tommy Chang wa... Read more

20 Aug 2018

28mins

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Ep. 100 - July 8, 2019 - The State of Parent Choice in 2019

Ep. 100 - July 8, 2019 - The State of Parent Choice in 2019

Howard Fuller, a Distinguished Professor of Education, and Founder/Director of the Institute for the Transformation of L... Read more

8 Jul 2019

27mins

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Ep. 81 - Feb. 25, 2019 - Public Sector Unions Not Devastated by Janus

Ep. 81 - Feb. 25, 2019 - Public Sector Unions Not Devastated by Janus

When the Supreme Court ruled last year in Janus v. Afscme that unions could no longer collect agency fees from employees... Read more

25 Feb 2019

17mins

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Ep. 41 - May 7, 2018 - Phonics Makes a Comeback in England

Ep. 41 - May 7, 2018 - Phonics Makes a Comeback in England

A little over a decade ago, a new government in the United Kingdom issued a report recommending that early reading instr... Read more

7 May 2018

18mins

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Ep. 59 - Sept. 10, 2018 - The Effects of Heat on Student Learning

Ep. 59 - Sept. 10, 2018 - The Effects of Heat on Student Learning

School is back in session after one of the hottest summers in recorded history, and many students are now in classrooms ... Read more

10 Sep 2018

13mins

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Ep. 29 - Feb. 12, 2018 - Racial Diversity in a Boston Charter School

Ep. 29 - Feb. 12, 2018 - Racial Diversity in a Boston Charter School

Boston Collegiate Charter School is the most diverse school in Boston.Paul E. Peterson talks with Richard Whitmire, whos... Read more

12 Feb 2018

20mins

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Ep. 104 - Aug. 5, 2019 - How Pell Grants Expanded to the Middle Class

Ep. 104 - Aug. 5, 2019 - How Pell Grants Expanded to the Middle Class

Jason Delisle, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the federal... Read more

5 Aug 2019

29mins

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Ep. 27 - Jan. 29, 2018 - School District Turnaround in Massachusetts

Ep. 27 - Jan. 29, 2018 - School District Turnaround in Massachusetts

State interventions to improve struggling local school districts have a mixed record, but in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a ... Read more

29 Jan 2018

19mins

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Ep. 30 - Feb. 19, 2018 - Helping Teens Develop a Sense of Purpose

Ep. 30 - Feb. 19, 2018 - Helping Teens Develop a Sense of Purpose

Do teens need a sense of purpose? William Damon of the Stanford Center on Adolescence says that developing a sense of pu... Read more

19 Feb 2018

20mins

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Ep. 38 - April 16, 2018 - New Research on the Impact of Teachers

Ep. 38 - April 16, 2018 - New Research on the Impact of Teachers

Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded thei... Read more

16 Apr 2018

18mins

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Ep. 23 - Dec. 11, 2017 - Dispelling Myths about CTE

Ep. 23 - Dec. 11, 2017 - Dispelling Myths about CTE

Albert Cheng of the Harvard Kennedy School sits down with Paul E. Peterson to discuss his research that looks into wheth... Read more

11 Dec 2017

16mins

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Ep. 76 - Jan. 22, 2019: Surge in Non-Teaching Staff Strains School Budgets

Ep. 76 - Jan. 22, 2019: Surge in Non-Teaching Staff Strains School Budgets

As teachers strike or threaten to strike in several cities, one of the key issues is pay. But while teachers want higher... Read more

22 Jan 2019

18mins

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Ep. 86 - April 1, 2019 - Fixing the Culture of Contempt

Ep. 86 - April 1, 2019 - Fixing the Culture of Contempt

In a new book, Love Your Enemies, Arthur Brooks describes the rise of a “culture of contempt”—a habit of seeing people w... Read more

1 Apr 2019

18mins

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Ep. 68 - Nov. 13, 2018 - KIPP Schools and the Charter Sector Continue to Evolve

Ep. 68 - Nov. 13, 2018 - KIPP Schools and the Charter Sector Continue to Evolve

Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the KIPP network is adapting to changes... Read more

13 Nov 2018

19mins

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Ep. 84 - March 18, 2019 How Much Should We Spend to Tackle Climate Change?

Ep. 84 - March 18, 2019 How Much Should We Spend to Tackle Climate Change?

What tradeoffs are involved when we choose to spend huge sums of money to slow global warming? Are there more cost-effec... Read more

18 Mar 2019

17mins

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Ep. 118 - Nov. 12, 2019 - Observations from Inside a Success Academy School

Ep. 118 - Nov. 12, 2019 - Observations from Inside a Success Academy School

Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, sits down with Paul E. Peterson to discuss his tim... Read more

12 Nov 2019

43mins

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Ep. 49 - July 2, 2018 - Why did the Supreme Court Change Course on Agency Fees?

Ep. 49 - July 2, 2018 - Why did the Supreme Court Change Course on Agency Fees?

On the last day of its 2017-2018 term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus vs. AFSCME that public employee unions can ... Read more

2 Jul 2018

22mins

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Ep. 70 - Nov. 26, 2018 - What Will the 2018 Midterm Election Results Mean for School Choice?

Ep. 70 - Nov. 26, 2018 - What Will the 2018 Midterm Election Results Mean for School Choice?

Clint Bolick, an Associate Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, talks with Paul E. Peterson about how the results of gu... Read more

26 Nov 2018

21mins

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Ep. 98 - June 24, 2019 - Reforming Education in America's Prisons

Ep. 98 - June 24, 2019 - Reforming Education in America's Prisons

There is new interest in giving adult prisoners greater access to education while they are behind bars. One bill in Cong... Read more

24 Jun 2019

21mins

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