PODCAST
Education Week
by Education Week
Education Week is American education's newspaper of record. Our reporters, researchers, and bloggers cover local, state, and national education news and issues from preschool through the high school transition to college and career.
Episodes
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Why All the Black Kids Are Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Q&A With Beverly Daniel Tatum)
How school leaders should embrace conversations about race and other insights from bestselling author Beverly Daniel Tatum. Photo credit: J.D. Scott
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Why We Can't Give Up on Our Public Schools (Q&A With Deborah Meier & Emily Gasoi)
Though public education is far from perfect, it needs our unequivocal support to improve, say educators Deborah Meier and Emily Gasoi in a Q&A.
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Test Scores Don't Tell the Whole Story (Q&A With Jack Schneider)
School success is often measured by test scores, but they don’t paint an accurate picture, says Jack Schneider in an Education Week Commentary Q&A. Photo credit: Thomas Rettig
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We Aren't Doing Enough to Teach Girls About Sex (Q&A With Peggy Orenstein)
In an Education Week Commentary Q&A, journalist Peggy Orenstein says the current sex education framework fails to prepare kids for positive sexual encounters and relationships.
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Seven Students Die Every Day (Q&A With Gary Younge)
In an Education Week Commentary Q&A, Gary Younge, editor-at-large of The Guardian, urges educators to remember the youngest victims of gun violence and to seek solutions that stop the bullets.
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Arrested in School: Niya Kenny's Story (Audio Interview)
Niya Kenny had just intended to document what she feared could be a bad situation. But when she encouraged her classmates at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., to join her in recording a student’s violent arrest by a school police officer in 2015, she never suspected videos would spread...
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Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance on Poverty and the Opioid Epidemic
J.D. Vance, author of the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, rose from working-class Appalachia to Yale Law School. He spoke with Education Week about poverty, the opioid epidemic and education, and how those three issues intersect.
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E.D. Hirsch on the “sad story” of France
In an interview with Education Week, the iconic yet controversial scholar and author E.D. Hirsch discusses the importance of background knowledge for reading.
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E.D. Hirsch on why “text complexity” is a myth
In an interview with Education Week, the iconic yet controversial scholar and author E.D. Hirsch discusses the importance of background knowledge for reading.
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E.D. Hirsch on text as a “two-way creation”
In an interview with Education Week, the iconic yet controversial scholar and author E.D. Hirsch discusses the importance of background knowledge for reading.
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Interview with Mike Koprowski
Mike Koprowski, the chief of transformation and innovation in the Dallas school district discusses the district's expanded school choice options and efforts to enhance socio-economic diversity.
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Coming Back for More: A Beginning Teacher on Her First Two Years
"I knew it was going to be hard," Miriam told me, describing her first two years of teaching fourth and fifth grade in a hard-pressed urban district on the West Coast. Her eyes unexpectedly welled with tears. "But it's harder than you expect."
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Q&A With Christopher Emdin: Making Students of Color a Priority
Q&A With Christopher Emdin: Making Students of Color a Priority by Education Week
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Environment Matters For Student Success (Q&A With Paul Tough)
In a Commentary Q&A, Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why, discusses the role environment plays in fostering students’ noncognitive skills. Image credit: Paul Terefenko
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The Plight of Black Girls in K-12 Schools (Q&A With Monique W. Morris)
In a Commentary Q&A, Monique W. Morris, co-founder and president of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, discusses her new book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. Photo credit: Image by Positive Images, courtesy of The New Press
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Education Week is American education's newspaper of record. Our reporters, researchers, and bloggers cover local, state, and national education news and issues from preschool through the high school transition to college and career.
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