S1E4 - Sort-of-free speech: First amendment rights in schools - Where and how do schools curtail free expression rights, and what is the history behind that? What do you, and do you not, have the right to say if you're a student (or teacher) in a scho...

  S2E3 - Not so plain English - Educating English Language Learners - When educational research and politics fall at odds, what happens to the students caught in the middle? Ten percent of students in the USA are English Language Learners,

  S2E2 - The women behind the man behind progressive education - Francis W. Parker became the great unsung hero of progressive education in America only because of several even lesser known, yet incredible, women who inspired, financed,

S2E1 - Unchartered Territory (or, What's the deal with charter schools?) - We kick off season two with a no holds-barred look at charter schools! Few issues in education are so divisive, yet so often misunderstood, than the issue of charter schools.

S2E0 - Teaching and learning in the shadow of COVID-19 - Season 2, Episode 0: At this moment in time there is no way to have an education podcast without a discussion of how COVID-19 has created sudden and radical shifts in how we teach and learn.

Special episode - We're all homeschoolers now The COVID-19 crisis has suddenly and unexpectedly made homeschoolers out of all Americans. In this episode, we take a look at the history of homeschooling,

We conclude Season One with part two of the bizarre, epic saga of the SAT test.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Utopian we've all forgotten about - Not many people outside of education scholars have heard of John Amos Comenius, but school as we know it today owes a great deal to this 17th century utopian thinker whose ideas,

Classroom management is one of the most difficult elements of the teaching profession for new teachers, and even for veterans. While there's no magic solution,

We discuss the lives of two rebels who fought against insurmountable odds to promote teaching methods that changed the world: Johann Pestalozzi and Maria Montessori.