Have You Heard

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Occasionally funny and periodically informative, Have You Heard features journalist Jennifer Berkshire and scholar Jack Schneider as they explore the age-old quest to finally fix the nation's public schools, one policy issue at a time.

Episode Date
#176 The Idaho Exception
Apr 30, 2024
#175 Special Education is Under Threat
Apr 09, 2024
#174 Religious Charter Schools are Coming. Be Worried.
Mar 19, 2024
#173 Did You Hear the One About the Skills Gap?
Feb 29, 2024
#172 Off of the Sidelines
Feb 15, 2024
#171 The Damage Done
Feb 01, 2024
#170 Can We Please Stop Talking About Harvard?
Jan 18, 2024
#169 Can the Democrats Win on Education?
Dec 21, 2023
#168 Coming to America
Nov 30, 2023
#167 Public Education Needs More Democracy, Not Less
Nov 16, 2023
#166 The School Voucher Scam
Nov 02, 2023
#165 The Politics of State Takeovers
Oct 19, 2023
#164 Plutocratic Philanthropists are Bad for Schools–and Democracy
Oct 05, 2023
#163 How to Get Ahead in School Without Really Learning
Sep 21, 2023
#162 State of Emergency
Aug 29, 2023
#161 AI Is Going to Upend Public Education. Or Maybe Not
Aug 08, 2023
#160 There’s No Way to Win the School Culture Wars
Jul 18, 2023
#159 The John Birch Society was the Original Moms for Liberty
Jun 22, 2023
#158 If We Want to Save Public Education, We’ve Got to Talk About It Differently
Jun 08, 2023
#157 Stopping the Privatization Train
May 24, 2023
#156 Digging Deep into the Education Wars
May 04, 2023
#155 Teachers Speak Out
Apr 20, 2023
#154 High Stakes
Apr 06, 2023
#153 The Assault on Public Education is Escalating
Mar 23, 2023
#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think
Mar 07, 2023
#151 Divide, Scatter, Conquer
Feb 16, 2023
#150 U-Turn: Charter Schools Go Private
Feb 02, 2023
#149 The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession
Jan 19, 2023
#148 Youth Power
Jan 05, 2023
#147 The Big Reveal
Dec 08, 2022
#146 Another Border: How Immigrant Families Navigate Higher Education
Nov 17, 2022
#145 How the Critical Race Theory Narrative Took Hold
Oct 27, 2022
#144 The Attack on Trans Kids and the Rollback of Rights
Oct 11, 2022
#143 Moving the Goalposts
Sep 22, 2022
#142: The Great Education Divide
Sep 08, 2022
#141 How School Privatization Has Undermined Democracy in New Orleans
Aug 18, 2022
#140 The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Jul 28, 2022
#139 The Original 'Moms for Liberty'
Jul 07, 2022
#138 A Reckoning for Rural Schools
Jun 16, 2022
#137 The Rise of the Economists
Jun 02, 2022
#136 State of Revolt
May 19, 2022
#135 Everything Old is New Again
May 05, 2022
#134 Where the Democrats Went Wrong
Apr 21, 2022
#133 What Should Schools Do About Climate Change?
Apr 07, 2022
#132 The Enemy Within
Mar 24, 2022
#131 School’s Choice
Mar 10, 2022
#130 Zombie Ideas in Education Reform
Feb 23, 2022
#129 Friends and Enemies
Feb 03, 2022
#128 Confessions of a School Reformer
Jan 20, 2022
#127 Teachers Are Being Tested Like Never Before
Jan 07, 2022
#126 What Ever Happened to the Public Good?
Dec 09, 2021
#125 What the Pandemic Has Meant for Special Education
Nov 18, 2021
#124 Confronting the Backlash
Nov 04, 2021
#123 Schooling the Workforce
Oct 21, 2021
#122 A Mind at Work: Remembering Mike Rose
Oct 07, 2021
#121 History Test: the Tangled Roots of Standardized Testing
Sep 24, 2021
#120 How Pronouns Became Landmines: The Conservative War on Trans Youth
Sep 09, 2021
#119 The Impact of HBCU-Trained Teachers on Black Student Achievement
Aug 26, 2021
#118 Democracy and Public Education: A Future in Peril
Aug 12, 2021
#117 College Behind Bars: the Case for Higher Education in Prison
Jul 15, 2021
#116 Not Your Parents’ School Desegregation
Jul 01, 2021
#115 Long, Hot Education Summer
Jun 16, 2021
#114 Where Communities Go to College
Jun 03, 2021
#113 The K-12 Culture Wars
May 20, 2021
#112 The Case for Elected School Boards
May 06, 2021
#111 State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools
Apr 22, 2021
#110 Failure to Disrupt. Again
Apr 08, 2021
#109 What They've Lost
Mar 25, 2021
#108 Kids as Customers
Mar 11, 2021
#107 Learning to Earn
Feb 25, 2021
#106 School Rankings, Ratings, and Wrongdoing
Feb 11, 2021
#105 Reopening a Can of Worms
Jan 28, 2021
#104 A New Secretary for the Department of Education
Jan 12, 2021
#103 Reaganland: Public Education and America’s Right Turn
Dec 17, 2020
#102: Politics in the Zoom Room
Dec 03, 2020
#101 Merchants of Doubt
Nov 12, 2020
#100 A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
Oct 29, 2020
#99 There’s No Democracy without Public Education
Oct 15, 2020
#98: The Rich and the Rest
Oct 01, 2020
#97 How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos
Sep 17, 2020
#96 Mind the Gap: Why It’s Time to Stop Talking about the Achievement Gap
Sep 03, 2020
#95 Contract Talk: New Research on Teachers Unions
Aug 20, 2020
#94 Pandemic Pods: Parents, Privilege, Power and Politics
Aug 06, 2020
#93: Making the Grade
Jul 23, 2020
#92: Is it Time to Cancel Teach Like a Champion?
Jul 09, 2020
#91 Arrested Development: How Police Ended Up in Schools
Jun 18, 2020
#90 Mail Order Schools: the Past and Present of Distance Learning
Jun 04, 2020
#89 States of Shock: the Coming Budget Calamity
May 21, 2020
#88 The Right to Read
May 07, 2020
#87 Access Denied: Why Don't We Have Internet for All?
Apr 23, 2020
#86‌ ‌‌You’ve‌ ‌Got‌ ‌Questions.‌ ‌We Have ‌Answers‌
Apr 09, 2020
#85 Pandemic: School Closures Past, Present, Future
Mar 23, 2020
#84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing
Mar 05, 2020
#83 Don’t Mess with Texas’ Schools
Feb 20, 2020
#82 Milton Friedman’s Day in Court
Feb 06, 2020
#81 History Wars: How Politics Shape Textbooks
Jan 23, 2020
#80 The Rural Schools Conundrum
Jan 09, 2020
#79 The PISA Problem
Dec 19, 2019
#78 Flip the Board: Denver and the Politics of School Reform
Dec 05, 2019
#77 Equity in Theory, Privilege in Practice: Race and the Quest for "Good Schools"
Nov 14, 2019
#76 Party Pivot: Why Democrats Are Rethinking School Choice
Oct 31, 2019
#75 Storefront School: Excavating A Radical Education Experiment in Harlem
Oct 17, 2019
#74 Kochland: Inside the Kochs' Vision for Public Education
Oct 03, 2019
#73 Betsy DeVos: the Musical!
Sep 19, 2019
#72 The Back to School Episode
Sep 05, 2019
#71 Anatomy of a Charter School Fraud
Aug 15, 2019
#70 The Case for Making College Free
Jul 30, 2019
#69 Progressive Charter Schools vs. the Education Marketplace
Jul 11, 2019
#68 Michigan’s School Choice Mess
Jun 27, 2019
#67 White Homebuyers, Black Neighborhoods and the Future of Urban Schools
Jun 14, 2019
#66 2020 Vision: Democratic Presidential Candidates and Education
May 30, 2019
#65 What an Elite Private School Teaches about the Future of For-Profit Education
May 16, 2019
#64 Different Strokes for Different Folks?
May 02, 2019
#63 Unmaking the Ontario Model: Austerity Comes to Canada
Apr 18, 2019
#62 Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment
Mar 28, 2019
#61 Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal
Mar 14, 2019
#60 The Rise of the “Portfolio” Model for Schools
Feb 28, 2019
#59 University, Inc.: Capitalism, Philanthropy and Higher Education
Feb 14, 2019
#58 The LA Teacher Strike: Back to the Future of Education Reform
Jan 31, 2019
#57 These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018
Jan 17, 2019
#56 The Farce of School Reform
Jan 03, 2019
#55 Unreal Results in Education Research
Dec 04, 2018
#54 Closing Time: In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?
Nov 15, 2018
#53 The Zombie: Undying Attacks on Ed Schools
Oct 31, 2018
#52: Teachers are Running for Office - And to Save Public Education
Oct 19, 2018
#51 Win/Win: Why Billionaire Philanthropists are Bad at School Reform
Oct 04, 2018
#50 On the Bus: What One City Can Teach Us About School Desegregation
Sep 21, 2018
#49 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Selling Short Cuts in American Education
Sep 06, 2018
#48 A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform
Aug 16, 2018
#47 Janus and the Future of Teachers Unions
Aug 02, 2018
#46 The Problem with Fear-Based School Reform
Jul 18, 2018
#45 Why the Implosion of a Silicon Valley Startup is a Cautionary Tale for Education “Disruptors”
Jul 02, 2018
#44 Life A La Carte: School Choice, Segregation and Gentrification in an Unequal City
Jun 21, 2018
#43 Teaching Machines: The Dream of Automating the Teaching Profession Goes Way Back
Jun 05, 2018
#42: Wisconsin Wakes Up: Signs of Spring in a Scorched-Earth State
May 21, 2018
#41 Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education?
May 01, 2018
#40 Takeover: What's Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?
Apr 18, 2018
#39 Education Research that “Counts”: the Rise of Quantitative Methodology
Apr 03, 2018
#38: 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike
Mar 16, 2018
#37: Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests
Mar 01, 2018
#36 The Skills Trap
Feb 13, 2018
#35 One Year In: Reflections on the DeVos Education Agenda
Jan 30, 2018
#34: What Gets Taught at Voucher Schools?
Jan 16, 2018
#33 Segrenomics: The Long History of Cashing In On Unequal Education
Jan 03, 2018
#32 Class Dismissed: What the 2016 Election Revealed About the Limits of "College for All"
Dec 19, 2017
#31 State of the Union: Charter School Teachers Are Organizing
Dec 05, 2017
#30 Teaching Controversy is Controversial (And It Always Has Been)
Nov 20, 2017
#29: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Corporate Education Agenda
Nov 08, 2017
#28: How Closing Schools Undermines Democracy
Oct 25, 2017
#27 School Reform TV: The "New" Philanthropists of Public Education
Oct 11, 2017
#26 Divided by Design: Race, Neighborhoods, Wealth and Schools
Sep 27, 2017
#25 Big Philanthropy, Small Change: Inside the Gates Foundation's Small Schools Experiment
Sep 12, 2017
#24 Schools Can't Fix Poverty (So Why do We Keep Insisting They Can?)
Aug 29, 2017
#23: The Mismeasure of Schools: Data, Real Estate and Segregation
Aug 14, 2017
#22: The Long Crusade Against Public Schools: A Conversation with Nancy MacLean
Jul 31, 2017
#21: 'I Quit' - Teachers Are Leaving and They Want to Tell You Why
Jul 11, 2017
#20: Putting the 'i' in School: Personalized Learning and the Disruption of Public Education
Jun 24, 2017
#19: Buying Influence: Big Money and School Board Elections
Jun 06, 2017
#18 DNA Test: the Ancestry of Charter Schools
May 23, 2017
#17: Where Have All the Black Teachers Gone?
May 05, 2017
#16: Truth in Edvertising
Apr 19, 2017
#15: Tax Credit Scholarships: A Laundromat for Tax Dollars
Apr 04, 2017
#14 For Profit U: Tressie McMillan Cottom on the rise of for-profit colleges
Mar 22, 2017
#13 - School Choice Meltdown in Motown
Mar 11, 2017
#12 Rate My Teacher: A Conversation with Michelle Rhee
Mar 07, 2017
#11: You're Fired
Feb 22, 2017
#10 Vouchers: a Love Story
Feb 10, 2017
#9 - Montessori Schools: They're Not Just for Rich White Kids Anymore
Jan 17, 2017
#8 - Georgia's Got Something on Its Mind
Oct 22, 2016
#7 How Ethnic Studies Works
Sep 27, 2016
#6 - The Middle Class Myth: Why College Doesn't Solve Poverty
Aug 07, 2016
#5 - Why Busing Failed
Jun 17, 2016
#4 - "If You Have a Voice, Use It:" Students in Lawrence, MA Write Their Future
May 02, 2016
#3 - Kindergarten Suspensions: Yes. It's a Thing.
Apr 04, 2016
#2 - A Rebellion in New Orleans
Feb 23, 2016
#1 - "These Tests Will Go:" The Opt-Out Movement in Urban Philadelphia
Jan 26, 2016