Episode 27: Jennifer Berkshire Explores What Public Education is Up Against

Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree! Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and higher education as a personal and public good. Jennifer Berkshire is the Bloch Lecturer in Education Journalism and a lecturer in Education Studies at Yale University.  Berkshire is a journalist and the co-host of the ⁠Have You Heard⁠ podcast, which is about education policy. Her work explores the intersection of public education and politics and her writing has appeared in the ⁠New York Times⁠, the ⁠Washington Post⁠, the ⁠Nation⁠, the⁠ New Republic⁠ and many other publications and she is the co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door with Jack Schneider . A licensed public-school teacher, Jennifer lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her new book The Education Wars is out this summer. Order and share! On this episode, Jennifer and Jeff get into a lively, stressful, upsetting, and never-more-important conversation about the long time project to dismantle and discredit higher ed and public education more generally. Both of them care so deeply about the present and future of education and that comes through as they unpack and work through the issues we are facing as a country. Follow the show on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@JobLiberalArts⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠and on Instagram @LiberalArtsJobPod Follow Jennifer on X @BisforBerkshire ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson