The Educate Podcast

The Educate podcast is all about education. We care about equity and opportunity and how people learn. We dig deep into education research. We're curious about how research translates into policy — or not. We think good teaching is hard. We think history has a lot to tell us about why things are the way they are. We believe in vivid storytelling.

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November 2, 2012

Crack Cocaine and Education

From the 1960s to the 1980s the educational achievement gap between blacks and whites was shrinking. But around 1990 high […]

October 26, 2012

University of Phoenix Slims Down

The University of Phoenix is closing 115 of its campuses and learning centers and laying off about 800 employees. This […]

October 19, 2012

Parent Loan Debt

When parents borrow money to pay for their children to go to college, they don’t often expect to be repaying […]

October 12, 2012

Elite Online Ed

The Minerva Project is billing itself as the world’s first “elite” online university. Though still in development, its founder Ben […]

October 5, 2012

Tuition Discount

Last month, Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn. announced plans to make a dramatic cut in tuition for the 2013-2014 […]

September 28, 2012

Re-Learning How to Write

Some educators believe that honing analytical writing skills will improve student learning across disciplines. In an article in this month’s […]

September 21, 2012

Hidden Power of Character

For years, educators have assumed that teaching students cognitive skills like reading and math was the key to preparing them […]

September 13, 2012

Keyboard College: How Technology is Revolutionizing Higher Education

Digital technologies and the Internet are changing how many Americans go to college. From online learning to simulation programs to smart-machine mentors, the 21st-century student will be taught in fundamentally new ways.

September 6, 2012

The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy

For-profit colleges have deep roots in American history, but until recently they were a tiny part of the higher education landscape. Now they are big players.

August 30, 2012

Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through

More people are going to college than ever before, but a lot of them aren't finishing. Low-income students, in particular, struggle to get to graduation.

August 24, 2012

Economic Advantage of College

Since the Great Recession began in 2008 many college graduates and their families have been wondering: what good is an […]

August 17, 2012

Mississippi’s Troubled Schools

Mississippi has highest rate of childhood poverty of any state in the country. Research suggests that high-quality early childhood education […]

August 10, 2012

The Irreplaceables

A new report claims that both the best and the worst teachers are leaving urban school districts at similar rates. […]

August 3, 2012

Report on For-Profits

This week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and the Workforce released a report that was very critical of […]

July 27, 2012

MOOCs are Trending

Massively Open Online Courses or MOOCS seem to be all the rage in elite higher education. Stanford, MIT, Harvard and […]

July 20, 2012

College in the New Economy

At a conference earlier this year, APM economics editor Chris Farrell spoke before a group of college admissions officers, enrollment […]

July 13, 2012

Making it Through College

Only 9 percent of low-income students complete a bachelor’s degree by age 24. Why are so many students quitting college, […]

July 6, 2012

Boys and Girls

Do boys and girls learn differently? According to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education, boys and girls show significant […]

June 29, 2012

The Art of Medical Education

A prestigious medical school is trying an unusual way to teach young doctors to be more observant. ARW assistant producer […]

June 22, 2012

Elite College for All

Coursera is a new consortium of top colleges and universities that have joined together to offer what’s known as Massively […]

June 15, 2012

Three-Year Degree

As the cost of tuition increases faster than the rate of inflation, condensing a bachelor’s degree down to three years […]

June 8, 2012

College Possible

The road to college starts for many kids as early as middle school as they decide what courses they’re going […]

June 1, 2012

College Study Time

Are college students learning less than they used to? Some recent, high-profile studies suggest the answer is yes. One reason […]

May 25, 2012

Housing Boom and College Choice

A new study finds that lower- and middle-class families whose housing value increased during the boom of the late ’90s […]

May 18, 2012

Open Textbooks

The average college student spends upwards of $1,000 a year on textbooks. The University of Minnesota recently announced a project […]

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