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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May 13, 2011

Academically Adrift?

Is a college degree enough? ARW Producer Emily Hanford interviews Richard Arum, one of the authors of a new book […]

May 6, 2011

Learning from Abroad

In the early part of the twentieth century, Americans were considered international leaders in education performance and innovation. Today, we […]

April 29, 2011

The Future of No Child Left Behind

The Obama administration wants big changes in the No Child Left Behind Act. This week on the podcast, we’ll get […]

April 22, 2011

College Costs Redux

We continue our discussion of why college tuitions keep going up. Host Stephen Smith interviewed the authors of Why Does […]

April 15, 2011

Understanding College Costs

College tuitions have been rising at well above the rate of inflation for decades now, and no one really seems […]

April 8, 2011

Can Tests Get Better?

Last week on the podcast, we talked to a USA Today reporter who looked into a national pattern of suspicious […]

April 1, 2011

Test Score Anomalies

When a poorly-performing classroom or school suddenly shows astronomical growth in standardized test scores, do we applaud or investigate? USA […]

March 25, 2011

Some College

There are 37 million Americans who have some college credits but no degree – that’s about 22 percent of the […]

March 18, 2011

The Bee Eater

Former Washington, D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee had a polarizing effect on educators and parents – she was either loved […]

March 11, 2011

Liberal Arts

In a down economy, is it harder to prove the relevance of a liberal arts education? Macalester College President Brian […]

January 14, 2011

Creativity

Some experts say it’s time we started thinking of creativity as a necessary skill – not just a trait – […]

January 7, 2011

College Loan Crisis

It’s a new year, and the news from Wall Street suggests the recession is slowly loosening its grip on the […]

December 31, 2010

Education Roundup

As the year 2010 comes to a close we look back at the biggest stories in education with the Hechinger […]

December 24, 2010

The Bilingual Brain

It was once believed that kids who learn two languages at once are somehow confused or slowed down by mastering […]

December 17, 2010

The Battle Over Homework

Kids have always complained about homework. But a new film argues that homework and other academic pressures have reached a […]

December 10, 2010

Modern Classrooms

The physical layout of classrooms hasn’t varied much since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Yet so much about our […]

December 3, 2010

New Tests

Part two of our look at standardized testing. Critics of traditional school assessments argue that they were never meant to […]

November 26, 2010

Evaluating School Evaluations

Schools are widely criticized for limiting what and how they teach so that students score higher on standardized tests. Why […]

November 19, 2010

Challenging Charters

Charter schools have been touted as a way to help save America’s struggling public education system. But recent studies and […]

November 12, 2010

Republicans and Education

The 2010 election results have triggered fears in the education world. With more Republicans in power, budget cuts may be […]

November 5, 2010

Stocks in the Future

Kids at a Baltimore school are learning about the stock market using real money – and they get to keep […]

October 29, 2010

Poor Students Thrive in Rich Schools

A recent study by the Century Foundation found that poor children do better when they go to school with wealthier […]

October 22, 2010

When Students Fail

Schools are developing new ways to judge teachers on how well their students learn. Time was when the responsibility for student achievement fell mostly on the students.

October 15, 2010

How Teachers Learn

How do public school teachers learn to be good at what they do? American RadioWorks producer Emily Hanford explains.

October 8, 2010

Great Teachers

Education reformers are calling for big changes in how teachers are trained and evaluated. In this discussion program, teachers, administrators, […]

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