Solving chronic absence: A whole-school approach
We speak with Hedy N. Chang of Attendance Works, who describes the long-term impact on student success of chronic absence in all grades. Framing chronic absence as a...
The attack on public education: Will public schools survive? (Encore)
We speak with University of South Carolina law professor Derek Black about the history of education as a core government service and the current wave of voucher laws in...
Translanguaging: Inviting the whole child into the classroom
We speak with Dr. Cecilia Espinosa and Dr. Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, co-authors of "Rooted in Strength: Using Translanguaging to Grow Multilingual Readers and Writers." Traditionally, teachers have brought language to...
Challenging censorship: Student journalists fight back
We speak with Hillary Davis, who runs the New Voices program at the Student Press Law Center, and Sara Fajardo, who experienced censorship firsthand at her high school. School...
School behind bars: Meeting the needs of traumatized kids
We speak with Melissa Svigelj-Smith, graduate fellow at University of California at Santa Cruz, about her experience teaching high school students awaiting case outcomes at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile...
Students speak up: NYC Youth Agenda
We speak with students Eugenia Bamfo, Alexandra Rouvinetis, and Mukilan Muthukumar, members of the NYC Youth Agenda. Using citywide student survey data, Youth Agenda teams aggregated young people's needs...
Why Geoffrey Canada is wrong: Defending schools as democratic spaces
We speak with Dr. Brian Jones, director of the New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools, which provides all sorts of free resources to teachers and school...
Supporting student civic activism: Social studies on steroids (Encore)
Dr. Alan Singer, Dr. Pablo Muriel, and Gates Millennium Scholar Dennis Belen-Morales, three generations of teachers, describe how they center student activism in their project-based social studies and history...
Abolitionist education: Creating liberatory spaces (Encore)
We speak with Swarthmore’s Dr. Edwin Mayorga, who explains how abolitionist classrooms and schools create “freedom as a place” in contrast to racial capitalism. Dr. Mayorga encourages educators to...
Evolving demographics: Rural schools in transition
We speak with Dr. David Fine, school superintendent in Dover, a mostly white small town in rural Dutchess County, NY, where longtime residents have been joined by other families...