What Would YOU Do?
Today we're here to invite you to watch our new video podcast series "What Would YOU do?". Created in partnership with EdEthics of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, each episode...
Paying it forward: a peer-staffed program for navigating college admissions
We speak with Michael Sanchez, executive director of Circle Match (formerly TCAT), a program that helps students in underserved high schools apply to colleges. Circle Match serves low income...
Solving teacher shortages: It’s not just pay
Drs. Katherine Norris and Kathryn Wiley, colleagues at Howard University’s School of Education, speak about obstacles to recruiting and retaining teachers and increasing diversity. Money matters, but even more,...
Opening up: Recreating schools as a community
Drs. Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, co-authors of "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy,” talk about co-creating and co-producing school initiatives with parents and community members. "Openness"...
Surveillance in school: Invasive technology, junk science
We speak with Albert Fox Cahn and Sarah Roth of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, or S.T.O.P., about the increasing use of surveillance technology to track students. Claiming their...
Inquiry and interpretation: Learning US history from primary sources
We speak with Lee Schere, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Office of K-16 Initiatives of CUNY about the Debating U.S. History Program, an inquiry-based curriculum and teacher...
School district battles: Protecting education from bans
We speak with Mike Gottesman, founder of New Jersey Public Education Coalition (NJPEC), a grassroots organization that educates and activates NJ citizens in school districts to protect the integrity...
Critiquing the “science of reading” movement: Teaching reading is “both/and”
Lynne Einbender and Susie Rolander, reading and literacy faculty at Bank Street College, talk about supporting children's learning to read and the components of a full-fledged language arts program. One size does not fit all:...
“Parents’ rights” campaigns: Targeting school books and curricula
Dr. Melissa Deckman, CEO of PRRI, Public Religion Research Institute, analyzes current “parents' rights" campaigns and their precedents. At a time of demographic change, conservative Christians seek to ban...
The “Name Game”: racialization in a suburban high school (Encore)
Drs. Tony de Jesus, Anthony Johnston, and Don Siler of University of St. Joseph recount their intervention in a multiracial high school in crisis. White students had instigated a “game” of...