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Have You Heard

Occasionally funny and periodically informative, Have You Heard features journalist Jennifer Berkshire and scholar Jack Schneider as they explore the age-old quest to finally fix the nation's public s... Read more

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#77 Equity in Theory, Privilege in Practice: Race and the Quest for "Good Schools"

#77 Equity in Theory, Privilege in Practice: Race and the Quest for "Good Schools"

Why do progressive parents so often act to preserve their own privilege even as they say they're committed to challengin... Read more

14 Nov 2019

35mins

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#65 What an Elite Private School Teaches about the Future of For-Profit Education

#65 What an Elite Private School Teaches about the Future of For-Profit Education

High-end for-profit private schools are a growing segment of the education ‘marketplace.’ Mike Levy, a long-time teacher... Read more

16 May 2019

32mins

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#76 Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice

#76 Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice

The Democratic Party seems to be backing away from its decades-long embrace of charter schools. While pundits cite the i... Read more

31 Oct 2019

35mins

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#40 Takeover: What's Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?

#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 authori... Read more

18 Apr 2018

28mins

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#56 The Farce of School Reform

#56 The Farce of School Reform

The smartest book Have You Heard has encountered on the limits of school reform in ages is a novel. Roxanna Elden's hila... Read more

3 Jan 2019

32mins

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#60 The Rise of the “Portfolio” Model for Schools

#60 The Rise of the “Portfolio” Model for Schools

There's big money lining up to bring the portfolio model to a school district near you. But what is it exactly? Scholar ... Read more

28 Feb 2019

35mins

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#69 Progressive Charter Schools vs. the Education Marketplace

#69 Progressive Charter Schools vs. the Education Marketplace

What happens when charter schools with progressive missions encounter an education marketplace where test scores and com... Read more

11 Jul 2019

24mins

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#61 Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

#61 Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

The Atlanta school cheating scandal saw 11 Black educators convicted of racketeering. Shani Robinson was one of them. Sh... Read more

14 Mar 2019

32mins

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#41 Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education?

#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 count... Read more

1 May 2018

30mins

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#46 The Problem with Fear-Based School Reform

#46 The Problem with Fear-Based School Reform

Business journalist Andrea Gabor steps into the Have You Heard studio to make the case that education reform has learned... Read more

18 Jul 2018

31mins

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#57 These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018

#57 These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018

Five (make that six) education news stories that deserved more attention in 2018.

17 Jan 2019

29mins

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#33 Segrenomics: The Long History of Cashing In On Unequal Education

#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 "eduprene... Read more

3 Jan 2018

27mins

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#20: Putting the 'i' in School: Personalized Learning and the Disruption of Public Education

#20: Putting the 'i' in School: Personalized Learning and the Disruption of Public Education

The push to "personalize" education is on, with more Silicon Valley disrupters jumping into the big money fray every wee... Read more

24 Jun 2017

35mins

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#49 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Selling Short Cuts in American Education

#49 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Selling Short Cuts in American Education

Americans are big believers in the power of education. But they are also a national of hustlers. Have You Heard explores... Read more

6 Sep 2018

32mins

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#22: The Long Crusade Against Public Schools: A Conversation with Nancy MacLean

#22: The Long Crusade Against Public Schools: A Conversation with Nancy MacLean

Jennifer Berkshire talks to Nancy MacLean, author of the best selling Democracy in Chains, about the Right's long crusad... Read more

31 Jul 2017

25mins

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#26 Divided by Design: Race, Neighborhoods, Wealth and Schools

#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 ... Read more

27 Sep 2017

35mins

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#62 Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

#62 Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

Arizona is home to some of the most outrageous charter school shenanigans in the country. Have You Heard talks to award... Read more

28 Mar 2019

32mins

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#24 Schools Can't Fix Poverty (So Why do We Keep Insisting They Can?)

#24 Schools Can't Fix Poverty (So Why do We Keep Insisting They Can?)

Have You Heard talks to historian Harvey Kantor about how education came to be seen as THE fix for poverty. Hint: it all... Read more

29 Aug 2017

26mins

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#47 Janus and the Future of Teachers Unions

#47 Janus and the Future of Teachers Unions

What will the Supreme Court's recent Janus ruling mean for the future of teachers unions? Jon Shelton, author of Teacher... Read more

2 Aug 2018

29mins

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#64 Different Strokes for Different Folks?

#64 Different Strokes for Different Folks?

No excuses-style charter schools, known for rigid discipline and a college prep focus have seen explosive growth in urba... Read more

2 May 2019

28mins

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