On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle helps families start the new school year off right for our children by taking five key steps -- from checking out the Common Core reading and math standards to finding out if your school uses Response-

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle further examines incidents such as Michael Brown murder in Ferguson, Mo., as well as the slaying of three year-old Laila Miller in Landover, Md. -- and reminds reformers that they must continually reme

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle takes stock of the murder of Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown, and explains how Black America and reformers should use this strategy as a st

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle discusses why reformers should emulate the truth-telling that Booker Wright did on national television to whites living in the Jim Crow South. Our opponents and our allies need bold truth-telling by th

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle takes time this Fourth of July week to remember the World War II generation and how we should leave the world better than we found it the same way they have done. You can listen (http://rishawnbiddle

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle discusses how implementing Common Core's reading and math standards, and expanding school choice, addresses America's shameful legacies on th

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains why we need fathers to leverage their power to transform American public education. Young men and women benefit when dads, both their own and the father figures around them, work to provide th

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle talks about how we should all embrace the spirit of starting over that marks how grandparents dote and help in nurturing grandchildren. This starts by admitting -- and correcting for -- the failures of

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle observes the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling by explaining why integration must be secondary to the systemic reform of American public education. Contrary to what traditional

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), RiShawn Biddle looks at the latest 12th-grade NAEP results and explains why we must move beyond helping kids achieve basic literacy and numeracy. In a knowl