Sparking Equity

About Sparking Equity

Education On The Line (formerly titled Sparking Equity) is a podcast focusing on the mounting political, financial, legal and ideological threats to public education. It will provide strategies to help education leaders and decisionmakers traverse the current perilous education landscape. Join media innovator and veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg as he interviews school leaders about how they are coping with attacks on public schools emanating from Washington D.C. -- while staying focused on how to ensure that all students succeed. The advisor for the podcast (and occasional guest host) is Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education. Sign up at link below so we can keep you posted on future episodes to help inform your decisionmaking. https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/gVZTFcZ (https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/gVZTFcZ)

Publisher

Advancing Education Success Initiative

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Sept 2023

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Beyond The Bell: Why We Must Reimagine Middle and High Schools

   One of the biggest challenges in education is how to move beyond the century old "factory model" which has dictated how most kids learn in middle and high schools -- too often with mixed results. Typically, instruction is broken into 45 or 50 minute instructional periods, five to seven times a day, five days a week. Decades of research tell us this is not the optimal way to effectively educate many if not most students. Across the country efforts are gathering momentum to m...

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   When Civil Rights Law Becomes A Political Weapon

   Arguably no other university has come under a broader attack from the Trump Administration than the University of California, the nation's largest public research university, one renowned for its excellence. Last year alone, it set a record for the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to faculty from one institution in a single year. In this episode, we get a rare insider's portrait of how the Trump Administration is targeting the university by alleging rampant anti-semitism throughout the sy...

3. 

   9 Jun 2026

   What Does "Patriotic Education" Mean in the Age of Donald Trump?

   Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently traveling to all 50 states with its History Rocks! campaign. It's a year-long effort to promote President Trump's vision of"patriotic education, backed by a coalition of 40 conservative and right wing organizations, including the Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, and Turning Point USA. Not a single organization representing a different point of view is represented. In our latest episode, host Louis Freedberg talks with...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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