All Episodes
The Report Card with Nat Malkus — 191 episodes
How Schools Should Approach Mental Health (with Carolyn D. Gorman)
How AI and Screens Are Changing Reading (with Naomi Baron)
Curriculum, Coherence, and Change (with John White)
The Latest on Chronic Absenteeism (with Nat Malkus)
The Semiquincentennial Edition (with Yuval Levin)
Inside the Department of Education (with Kirsten Baesler)
What Harvard's New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)
A Rising Tide in Alabama (with Eric Mackey)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 471 Days In
What Can AI Replace in Higher Education? (with Hollis Robbins)
Best Of: Eva Moskowitz on Success Academy
The Effects of Grade Inflation (with Jeff Denning)
Mathematical Flexibility and Teaching Middle School Math (with Jon Star)
Lee Bollinger on Universities and the Trump Administration
The Making of America’s Schools: From Revolution to Civil War (with Johann Neem)
Randi Weingarten on the Teaching Profession
Math Academy (with Jason Roberts and Justin Skycak)
2025 in Review
Should AI Be Used in Classrooms Today?
Alpha School (with MacKenzie Price)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 303 Days In
Lessons from Pandemic-Era Tutoring (with Liz Cohen)
Houston, We Have a Solution (with Mike Miles)
Do Phones Make Students Less Able to Focus? (with Dan Willingham)
Why Are Test Scores Falling? (with James Wyckoff and Chad Aldeman)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 233 Days In
The Competitive Effects of School Choice (with Sarah Cordes)
Adult Interests vs. Student Needs (with Vlad Kogan)
AI Lessons from Nigeria (with Martín De Simone)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 177 Days In
Big Changes to Student Lending in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (with Preston Cooper)
The Unintended Effects of Increased Technology Access (with Jared Schachner)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 135 Days In
Jonathan Haidt on Childhood, Play, and Social Media
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 121 Days In
Pandemic School Closures, Five Years Later (with David Zweig)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 107 Days In
Religious Charter Schools?
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 93 Days In
Success (with Eva Moskowitz)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 79 Days In
Talking Math Instruction (with Anna Stokke)
Education and the Second Trump Administration, 58 Days In
Should Congress Grant the NCAA an Antitrust Exemption?
Credit Recovery (with Carolyn J. Heinrich)
The NAEP 2024 Rundown (with Marty West and Mark Schneider)
Told a Story (with Emily Hanford)
Learning in War-Time (with Russ Roberts)
2024 in Review
Do Exceptional Students Need Exceptional Mentors? (with Ian Calaway)
Cognitive Load Theory, Explicit Teaching, and Bringing Research Into the Classroom (with Greg Ashman)
What the 2024 Elections Mean for Education
Choice, Accountability, and Peer Effects (with David Figlio)
AP, SAT, and the College Board (with David Coleman)
Campus Free Speech (with Cass Sunstein)
Return on Investment in Higher Education (with Preston Cooper)
How Did the Pandemic Change Schooling? (with Brian Jacob)
State Leadership and the Mississippi Miracle (with Carey Wright)
Best Of: Katharine Birbalsingh on Michaela
Did ESSER Work? (with Dan Goldhaber)
Phonics, Comprehension, and Disciplinary Literacy (with Timothy Shanahan)
John W. Boyer on Campus Protests, Free Expression, and the University of Chicago
Sal Khan on AI Lessons from the Past Year
Mark Schneider on IES
Pete Etchells on Screens and Mental Health
Paul Carrese on Civic Education on Campus
Marguerite Roza on ESSER
David Steiner on Coherence, Content, and the Humanities
Should Democrats Support Education Savings Accounts?
Rick Hess and Mike McShane on Getting Education Right
Angela Watson on Homeschooling
Tom Richards on the Florence Academy of Art
Mike McShane on ESAs
Dylan Wiliam on PISA, Assessment, and De-implementation
2023 in Review
Brian Jacob and Vladimir Kogan on School Board Elections
Brooks Bowden on the Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency
Ethan Hutt and Jack Schneider on Grades, Tests, and Transcripts
Melissa Kearney on the Two-Parent Privilege
Best Of: Doug Lemov on Cellphones in Schools
Roland Fryer on Incentives and Opportunity
Jelani Nelson and Tom Loveless on the California Math Framework
Laura Meckler on Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
Mike Miles on Houston ISD
David Deming and John Friedman on Highly Selective College Admissions
Arthur VanderVeen on Assessments
Ethan Mollick on AI
Larry Berger on Curriculum
Katharine Birbalsingh on Michaela
Rick Hess on The Great School Rethink
Adam Mastroianni on Strong- and Weak-Link Problems
Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin on Teacher Evaluation and Compensation
Christopher Campos and John Deasy on Neighborhood School Choice
Michael Hartney on Teachers Unions
Sal Khan on AI in Education
Student Loan Forgiveness In Court with Beth Akers and Adam White
Nicole Stelle Garnett on Religious Charter Schools and Universal ESAs
Matt Chingos and Jason Delisle on Income-Driven Repayment
Liberian Education and Bridge International Academies with George Werner and Steve Cantrell
Daniel Willingham on Outsmarting Your Brain
The Year In Review
Jennifer Frey on Education and Human Happiness
Melissa Arnold Lyon and Matthew Kraft on Perceptions of the Teaching Profession
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx On The Republican Vision For Higher Education Policy
Tom Kane on NAEP, the Education Recovery Scorecard, and COVID Learning Loss
Po-Shen Loh on Math Instruction
Richard Reeves on Boys and Men
Freeman Hrabowski on Black Students in STEM
Doug Lemov on Cellphones in Schools
Is the Pandemic Over? A Conversation with John Bailey
Bleakness in American Schooling
Christina Brown and Heather Schofield on Cognitive Endurance
Nate Hilger on The Parent Trap
Kymyona Burk and Emily Hanford on the Reading Wars
Ian Rowe on Agency
Beth Akers on Student Loan Forgiveness
Emily Morton and Dan Goldhaber on The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic
Ilana Horwitz on the Impact of Religion on Student Outcomes
Grow Your Own Teacher
Race in Admissions and Financial Aid Price-Fixing Schemes
Mask mandates in schools
Neighborhood school choice
Bleakness in American schooling
COVID-19 relief for schools: where are we at?
The year of school choice
How effective are Career and Technical Education programs?
2021 education year in review
The COVID-induced teacher shortage?
A new way to reignite the pursuit of truth on campus?
What's more important: the college or the major?
Does school choice need bipartisan support?
2021 Yidan Prize winner: Eric Hanushek
COVID-19 and homeschooling
How divided are Americans on race, religion, and COVID-19 mitigation in public schools?
How behind are students? Ohio offers some answers.
Should the Covid-19 vaccine be required for teachers and students?
Should state and local leaders send Covid cash to kids?
Will summer learning help mitigate Covid learning loss?
What should Covid mitigation in K-12 schools look like this fall?
Should states ban Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools?
The right direction on Title IX (rebroadcast)
Has the Common Core failed?
How to Make College Worth the Expense
Racial Achievement Gaps and Covid
Hybrid Homeschooling: The Future of Education?
Covid Enrollment Drops and the Class of 2034
Can We Tutor Our Way Out of Covid Learning Loss?
Tracking America's Return to In-Person Learning
Are charter schools hurting traditional public schools?
School counseling in a pandemic
Estimating Covid Learning Loss
Secretary of Education-designate Miguel Cardona: Challenges and Prospects
Leadership In A Time of Crisis [Rebroadcast]
Free College
Should college students be on campus or remote?
The Election Is Over. What’s Next For Education?
What will the 2020 elections mean for education?
Should we be sending K–12 students back to school in person?
Rethinking School Staffing
Rethinking Teacher Benefits
Reopening K-12 Schools: Lessons from Childcare
Inside School Reopening Plans: Superintendent Perspectives
A big year for education in the Supreme Court (with Josh Dunn)
How can schools possibly reopen this fall? A conversation with John Bailey
The Knowledge Gap [Rebroadcast]
Hybrid homeschooling (with Mike McShane)
Degrees of freedom (with Seth Andrew)
The shifting politics of charter schooling
What will it take to get back to school? (with Rick Hess and Candice McQueen)
Leadership in the coronavirus pandemic, with Governor Jeb Bush
Teacher leadership amid coronavirus
Teaching amid the coronavirus pandemic
Superintendents and coronavirus (with Josh Starr and Duncan Klussmann)
Coronavirus and school closures (with John Bailey)
Minerva and the future of higher education with Ben Nelson
Liberian education and Bridge International Academies with George Werner and Steve Cantrell
Why Meadow Died: with Max Eden
Evaluating supplemental curricula with Morgan Polikoff
Success Academy Charter Schools with Robert Pondiscio
2019 Education Year in Review: with Erica Green, Alyson Klein, and Josh Mitchell
Teen Vaping with Scott Gottlieb, Mila Vascones-Gatski, and Evie Blad
Free College in New York with Elsa Magee and Christopher Barto
Social emotional learning with Jackie Jodl and Robert Pondiscio
Deeper Learning with Jal Mehta
Choosing college with Michael Horn
Rural education with Jeff Hawkins and Campbell Scribner
Is the achievement gap actually a knowledge gap? (with Natalie Wexler and Ashley Berner)
Citizen Philanthropists and Education Reform with Charles Best
Could the P-TECH schools model close the skills gap? (with Grace Suh)
Can income share agreements address college affordability and accountability concerns? (with Beth Akers and Tonio DeSorrento)
Debate Edition: The right direction on Title IX Sexual Harassment regulations