S4E4 - Spare the rod: Corporal punishment in US public schools - The USA stands virtually alone among democracies in permitting schools to employ physical violence in disciplining students. This episode explores the history,

S4E3 - Let's talk about sex, maybe? - Whether US public schools should teach sex education, and just what exactly we even mean by that phrase, has been a point of contention since at least the 19th century.

S4E2 - Room for contradictions: The Schooling of Chinese Americans - What challenges have Chinese Americans faced, and what victories have they won, in the quest for equal access to an education in the USA?

 Season 4, Episode 1: Do Schools Even Matter? - A lot of what influences students' academic and long-term life outcomes have nothing to do with how schools are structured and how teachers teach. In the face of income inequality,

S3E14 - Blowout! - We close out Season Three with a look back at the student activism of the 1968 East Los Angeles walkouts, and how Chicano students defied abusive policies and police brutality to try and improve their schools. -

S3E13 - Two voices from the COVID Classroom - Two teachers - one from a suburban middle school, one form a tech-voc agricultural school, share their unfiltered stories and opinions about what their job, their school and their students' experience look...

S3E12.5 - New Beginnings, Old Challenges - A brief set of reflections on the challenges of education from Election Day 2016 to Inauguration Day 2021. - Sources for this episode.

 S3E12 - How do we get this thing right? - Nine months in, and online, remote and hybrid school is still proving dismal for far too many students and teachers. The end, if it's even in sight, isn't coming any time soon,

S3E11 - What's it like elsewhere? - Ever wondered how the history and operations of schooling around the world differs from that of the USA? We take a glimpse at four countries' schools - specifically, England, France,

S3E10 - Can't we all just get along? The Math and History wars - Politics in education are so bitter because so little is at stake? Maybe, maybe not. In this episode we examine the ongoing debates about the "proper" teaching of two subjects,