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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September 9, 2010

The Little Rock Nine

One of the Little Rock Nine, the group of black students that desegregated public high schools in Arkansas in 1957, […]

August 27, 2010

Testing Teachers

Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with […]

August 20, 2010

Summer Jobs

As the weak economy continues to make jobs scarce, younger, inexperienced workers are finding it difficult to land that mainstay […]

August 12, 2010

Testing Teachers

Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with the worst teachers. Researchers say the achievement gap between poor children and their higher-income peers could disappear if poor kids got better teachers.

June 4, 2010

Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind

Stephen Smith talks with education producer Emily Handford about how No Child Left Behind might change as Congress considers its […]

May 28, 2010

Put to the Test

This week, the U.S. Senate concluded hearings on reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, and everyone seems to agree the […]

May 14, 2010

James Forman, Jr.

James Forman, Jr. was born into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His parents were both members of the organization. His […]

May 7, 2010

Taylor Branch

Journalist and historian Taylor Branch has written extensively about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and civil rights in his trilogy […]

April 30, 2010

Clayborn Carson

Prominent Civil Rights historian Clayborn Carson spoke at the 50th anniversary conference of SNCC, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, about […]

April 23, 2010

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon – singer, scholar, composer, activist and oral historian – was a field secretary for SNCC, the Student […]

April 16, 2010

Diane Ravitch on Education Reform

Education scholar Diane Ravitch argues that the major education reforms of the past ten years are killing the American public […]

April 9, 2010

Education Reform in D.C.

Michelle Rhee, chancellor of public schools in Washington D.C., made big education news this week by announcing a new contract […]

March 5, 2010

Interview with Trey Kay

Host Stephen Smith speaks with independent producer Trey Kay about his documentary The Great Textbook War.

February 5, 2010

Obama’s Plan for Education

President Obama’s proposed budget contains big increases in education spending. Most of the new money would go to school districts […]

January 22, 2010

A Good Teacher

We all probably had a favorite teacher or two growing up, but what was it about those teachers that made […]

January 15, 2010

Evaluating Teachers

Research shows that when it comes to student achievement, teachers matter most. But what makes a good teacher? And how […]

December 23, 2009

Roger’s Christmas Story

Roger was put into foster care when he was eleven years old and spent four years in and out of […]

December 18, 2009

Community College Professors

Education producer Emily Hanford talks with community college professors about why they teach at community college.

November 27, 2009

The Making of Divorced Kid

Stephen Smiths talks with Sasha Aslanian, producer of Divorced Kid, a documentary about the 1970s divorce revolution and what it […]

November 20, 2009

Divorced Kid

America’s divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back […]

November 12, 2009

Workplace U

A new movement turns conventional wisdom on its head, and makes a job the ticket to an education. The idea is to turn workplaces into classrooms and marginal students into productive workers.

November 1, 2009

Rising By Degrees

The United States is facing a dramatic demographic challenge: Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the population, and they are the least likely to graduate from college.

October 23, 2009

Latinos and College

Latinos are the fastest growing segment of the United States population, but they’re the least likely to have college degrees.

October 16, 2009

Financing the Real World

American RadioWorks goes to Holy Family Cristo Rey, a school that makes preparation for the work-world part of the curriculum.

October 9, 2009

The GI Bill

Stephen Smith reports on the impact of the GI Bill on the military, education, and the economy.

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