On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Brooks Bowden about her recent paper The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency, co-authored by Viviana Rodriguez and Zach Weingarten. Nat and Brooks discuss how grading policies influence s

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Ethan Hutt and Jack Schneider about their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Dont Have To). Nat, Ethan, and Jack discuss grades, tests, and transcri

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Melissa Kearney about her new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind. Nat and Melissa discuss the decline in marriage among non-college-ed

Note: This episode originally aired in September 2022.On this episode of The Report Card, Nat speaks with Doug Lemov about how cellphones and social media harm the academic and social development of students and make schools less inclusive. Nat and Doug a

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat speaks with Roland Fryer about incentives and opportunity. Nat and Roland discuss paying students, parents, and teachers; the importance of properly structuring incentives; affirmative action; loss aversion; why ce

On July 12th, the California State Board of Education adopted a new math framework that will affect the way math is taught for the nearly 6 million students in Californias public schools and has the potential to influence the way math is taught at the na

On the latest episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Laura Meckler about her new book, Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. Nat and Laura discuss integration, busing, and de-tracking; the Van Sweringen brothers; the limi

In May, Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin joined the podcast to discuss their research on Dallas Independent School Districts Accelerating Campus Excellence program and its Principal Excellence and Teacher Excellence initiatives.The man who implemented the

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, selective colleges, and their admissions practices, have received a lot of scrutiny. Does going to a highly selective college affect long-term outcomes? How much preference are legacy applic

Ever since No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2002, assessments have been a fixture of the education landscapea very divisive one. But assessments have changed a lot over the last twenty years and are still changing to better meet the needs of s