The Report Card with Nat Malkus

The Report Card with Nat Malkus


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Education and the Second Trump Administration, 135 Days In
June 04, 2025

A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks. The Trump administration announced that it would go after Harvards ability to enroll international students. A judge ordered the Department of Education to rehire the employees it had fired. And the Supre

Jonathan Haidt on Childhood, Play, and Social Media
May 28, 2025

Kids spend hours a day on their phones scrolling through social media. Many have debated whether all this social media use is bad for mental health, but theres a more basic question that needs to be asked: Does all this social media use promote healthy d

Education and the Second Trump Administration, 121 Days In
May 21, 2025

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus, Andy Rotherham, and Rick Hess break down the latest on the education policy landscape. Nat, Andy, and Rick discuss budget reconciliation, what the creation of a national tax credit scholarship program would

Pandemic School Closures, Five Years Later (with David Zweig)
May 14, 2025

Five years ago, schools shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic. Schooling was remote for the rest of the year, and many schools would remain remote for much of the following year.Europe took a different approach.In many European countries, schools reopened t

Education and the Second Trump Administration, 107 Days In
May 07, 2025

Its day 107 of the second Trump administration, and a lot has happened over the last two weeks. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that sit at the intersection of schooling and religious liberty. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a massi

Religious Charter Schools?
April 29, 2025

On April 30, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, in which a virtual school in Oklahoma is attempting to become the nations first religious charter school.On this episode of The Report

Education and the Second Trump Administration, 93 Days In
April 23, 2025

Its day 93 of the Trump administration, and the education landscape hasnt yet calmed down. The Trump administration has gone after Harvard, and Harvard is fighting back. The Trump administration has revoked the visas of hundreds of international student

Success (with Eva Moskowitz)
April 17, 2025

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy. Nat and Eva discuss why COVID learning loss is a misnomer; whether chronically absent students should face consequences for their poor attend

Education and the Second Trump Administration, 79 Days In
April 09, 2025

A lot has happened in the education world over the last few weeks. President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. The Trump administration has taken aggressive actions targeting elite universities and has threatened to

Talking Math Instruction (with Anna Stokke)
April 02, 2025

In the education world over the past few years, a lot of attention has been paid to phonics and balanced literacy and the ways in which reading instruction practices often dont align with what we know about how students learn to read.Are there any obviou