On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains why measuring student achievement through standardized testing is critical to helping all children, especially those from poor and minority households, succeed in school and life. You can li

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes time this Christmas season to consider two important lessons about helping all kids from the birth of Christ that all reformers should embrace. You can listen (http://rishawnbiddle.org/RRB/medi

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle checks out a series of recent studies and explains why we must overhaul math instruction and curricula from preschool to high school. You can listen (http://rishawnbiddle.org/RRB/media/MusicBox/) to

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the protests over Eric Garner and Ferguson, and explains how school reformers and advocates for ending police corruption can come together to transform public education and criminal justice.

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks at the child abuse scandal at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/csdr-640734-abuse-students.html) and explains why overhauling how we train and ma

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle discusses why it is time to move beyond defined-benefit pensions that are proving costly to taxpayers, teachers, and children alike. You can listen (http://rishawnbiddle.org/RRB/media/MusicBox/) to

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle discusses the three things school reformers are as people before they are members of a moral movement charged with helping our children succeed. You can listen (http://rishawnbiddle.org/RRB/media/Mus

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains how the late Lillian Gobitas Klose’s battle to end mandatory recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in the last century, as well as battles over school prayer today, show the need to transfo

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle offers six more steps -- from asking teachers about their use of data, to advocating for free lunch for all students -- that families can take to help their kids (and all kids) succeed in school and in

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle casts a gimlet eye on the lawsuit filed by traditionalists in Florida against a school choice program and explains why reformers must fight zealously to defend and expand options for all of our childre