S2E14 - School for Scandal, Pt 3 - The Inevitable Corruption - We wrap up our three part series, as well as Season Two entirely, by looking at the sordid underbelly of the school accountability mania of the 2000s,

S2E13 - School for Scandal, Pt 2: Value-Added Messes - In part two of our series on the nationwide test cheating scandals of the late 2000s, we take a look at "Value Added Measurement" of a teacher's impact on student learning,

S2E12 - School for Scandal, Pt 1: The Bee-Eater - Public education suffered a cascading series of scandals at the end of the last decade, when teachers and principals in towns and cities across 40 states were discovered to have cheated state accountab...

        S2E11 - Principals of power: Fannie, Annie and Nannie - In this episode we celebrate three groundbreaking and influential principals - Fannie Copland, Annie Cooper and Nannie Boroughs. All three are African American women who were either from,...

S2E10- Race and justice in the classroom In a time of sustained worldwide demonstrations for racial justice, conversations about race and equity are becoming more pervasive than they've been in decades. We continue one of those conversations this epis...

S2E9 - Accountability at a crossroads - Among the many aspects of schooling disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic is the system of accountability that has been the chief driving force in public education since 2001.

S2E8 - What does injustice have to do with me? - We cannot address school inequities by just focusing on underprivileged schools serving marginalized populations. We need to find ways to engage affluent white students in "high powered" schools with th...

S2E7 - Didn't we solve this problem? Why American schools are more racially segregated than ever. - As protests rage across Minneapolis in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, we need to remember that these protests are informed by more tha...

S2E6 - Teaching and learning in the shadow of COVID-19, two months in - Schools are now 8 weeks into the "distance learning" modalities that COVID-19 has forced upon them. In our April 2nd episode, I interviewed three teachers from across the country ...

 S2E5 - How past pandemics and crises changed schools - COVID-19 is not the first epidemic or major crisis that has radically altered the structure of American public education. This episode surveys some of the changes,