EdNext Podcast

About EdNext Podcast

A weekly podcast from "Education Next," a journal of opinion and research. Introduction music: "Organic Grunge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publisher

Education Next

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Aug 2015

Latest episode

24 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

1 of 230 episodes have a transcript.

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   24 Mar 2021

   Ep. 229 - March 24, 2021: An Optimist's Guide to American Public Education

   An education columnist for the Washington Post, Jay Mathews, joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss Mathews' new book, "An Optimist’s Guide to American Public Education," and The Challenge Index, Mathews' annual ranking of American high schools. An excerpt from the book, "What I Learned in 23 Years Ranking America’s Most Challenging High Schools," by Mathews, is available now. https://www.educationnext.org/what-i-learned-in-23-years-ranking-americas-most-challenging-high-schools/

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   17 Mar 2021

   Ep. 228 - March 17, 2021: Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education—New Evidence from Florida

   An assistant professor at American University, Claudia Persico, joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss Persico's new research, which investigates whether students of color are being properly identified for special education. "Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education," written with Todd E. Elder, David Figlio, and Scott Imberman, is available now. https://www.educationnext.org/segregation-racial-gaps-special-education-new-evidence-on-debate-over-disproportionality/

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   10 Mar 2021

   Ep. 227 - March 10, 2021: Daniel Willingham on Making Education Research Relevant

   A professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, Daniel T. Willingham, joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how findings in education research can be better translated to help teachers in a live classroom setting. Willingham's article, "Making Education Research Relevant: How researchers can give teachers more choices," co-written with David B. Daniel, is available now. https://www.educationnext.org/making-education-research-relevant-how-researchers-can-give-teachers-more-choices/

Inside a recent episode

Ep. 203 - June 3, 2020: Why Some Schools Are Responding Well to the Pandemic

Published 3 Jun 2020 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And if you're in a highly rule bound organization where there is not a sense of teamwork, where there's not trust, where there's not an overall commitment to high quality, I would go as far as to say it is impossible to make the jump to distance learning with any quality. Interestingly, schools that were very high functioning cultures but low on the tech curve have figured it out and most of them have just spent their first few weeks learning the tools and sort of taking that leap to learn tech were even reluctantly and they can move up the curve pretty easily. But schools that don't have that sense of teamwork and flexibility literally are finding it impossible to get better either at the tech or at their culture. […]

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