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#127 Teachers Are Being Tested Like Never Before

#126 What Ever Happened to the Public Good?

#125 What the Pandemic Has Meant for Special Education

#124 Confronting the Backlash

#123 Schooling the Workforce

#122 A Mind at Work: Remembering Mike Rose

#121 History Test: the Tangled Roots of Standardized Testing

#120 How Pronouns Became Landmines: The Conservative War on Trans Youth

#119 The Impact of HBCU-Trained Teachers on Black Student Achievement

#118 Democracy and Public Education: A Future in Peril

#117 College Behind Bars: the Case for Higher Education in Prison

#116 Not Your Parents’ School Desegregation

#115 Long, Hot Education Summer

#114 Where Communities Go to College

#113 The K-12 Culture Wars

#112 The Case for Elected School Boards

#111 State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools

#110 Failure to Disrupt. Again

#109 What They've Lost

#108 Kids as Customers

#107 Learning to Earn

#106 School Rankings, Ratings, and Wrongdoing

#105 Reopening a Can of Worms

#104 A New Secretary for the Department of Education

#103 Reaganland: Public Education and America’s Right Turn

#102: Politics in the Zoom Room

#101 Merchants of Doubt

#100 A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

#99 There’s No Democracy without Public Education

#98: The Rich and the Rest

#97 How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos

#96 Mind the Gap: Why It’s Time to Stop Talking about the Achievement Gap

#95 Contract Talk: New Research on Teachers Unions

#94 Pandemic Pods: Parents, Privilege, Power and Politics

#93: Making the Grade

#92: Is it Time to Cancel Teach Like a Champion?

#91 Arrested Development: How Police Ended Up in Schools

#90 Mail Order Schools: the Past and Present of Distance Learning

#89 States of Shock: the Coming Budget Calamity

#88 The Right to Read

#87 Access Denied: Why Don't We Have Internet for All?

#86‌ ‌‌You’ve‌ ‌Got‌ ‌Questions.‌ ‌We Have ‌Answers‌

#85 Pandemic: School Closures Past, Present, Future

#84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing

#83 Don’t Mess with Texas’ Schools

#82 Milton Friedman’s Day in Court

#81 History Wars: How Politics Shape Textbooks

#80 The Rural Schools Conundrum

#79 The PISA Problem

#78 Flip the Board: Denver and the Politics of School Reform

#77 Equity in Theory, Privilege in Practice: Race and the Quest for "Good Schools"

#76 Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice

#75 Storefront School: Excavating A Radical Education Experiment in Harlem

#74 Kochland: Inside the Kochs' Vision for Public Education

#73 Betsy DeVos: the Musical!

#72 The Back to School Episode

#71 Anatomy of a Charter School Fraud

#70 The Case for Making College Free

#69 Progressive Charter Schools vs. the Education Marketplace

#68 Michigan’s School Choice Mess

#67 White Homebuyers, Black Neighborhoods and the Future of Urban Schools

#66 2020 Vision: Democratic Presidential Candidates and Education

#65 What an Elite Private School Teaches about the Future of For-Profit Education

#64 Different Strokes for Different Folks?

#63 Unmaking the Ontario Model: Austerity Comes to Canada

#62 Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

#61 Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

#60 The Rise of the “Portfolio” Model for Schools

#59 University, Inc.: Capitalism, Philanthropy and Higher Education

#58 The LA Teacher Strike: Back to the Future of Education Reform

#57 These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018

#56 The Farce of School Reform

#55 Unreal Results in Education Research

#54 Closing Time: In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?

#53 The Zombie: Undying Attacks on Ed Schools

#52: Teachers are Running for Office - And to Save Public Education

#51 Win/Win: Why Billionaire Philanthropists are Bad at School Reform

#50 On the Bus: What One City Can Teach Us About School Desegregation

#49 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Selling Short Cuts in American Education

#48 A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform

#47 Janus and the Future of Teachers Unions

#46 The Problem with Fear-Based School Reform

#45 Why the Implosion of a Silicon Valley Startup is a Cautionary Tale for Education “Disruptors”

#44 Life A La Carte: School Choice, Segregation and Gentrification in an Unequal City

#43 Teaching Machines: The Dream of Automating the Teaching Profession Goes Way Back

#42: Wisconsin Wakes Up: Signs of Spring in a Scorched-Earth State

#41 Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education?

#40 Takeover: What's Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?

#39 Education Research that “Counts”: the Rise of Quantitative Methodology

#38: 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike

#37: Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests

#36 The Skills Trap

#35 One Year In: Reflections on the DeVos Education Agenda

#34: What Gets Taught at Voucher Schools?

#33 Segrenomics: The Long History of Cashing In On Unequal Education

#32 Class Dismissed: What the 2016 Election Revealed About the Limits of "College for All"

#31 State of the Union: Charter School Teachers Are Organizing

#30 Teaching Controversy is Controversial (And It Always Has Been)

#29: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Corporate Education Agenda

#28: How Closing Schools Undermines Democracy