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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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21mins