School Choice

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Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

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The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes

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How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation

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Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools

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Radical

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Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College

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Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories

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Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education

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The Book

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Self-Tracking

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Information and Society

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The Mind-Body Problem

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Metadata

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Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World

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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

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Collaborative Society

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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

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Irony and Sarcasm

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The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain

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The Hybrid Teacher: Using Technology to Teach In Person and Online

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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

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Machine Translation

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The Future

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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

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Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers

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Food

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Extremism

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Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Errors, Blunders, and Lies: How to Tell the Difference

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101 Laws of Logic

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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

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The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

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Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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Learn Spanish While Sleeping

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition

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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

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The Elements of Style

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Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

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Summary: The Laws of Human Nature: by Robert Greene: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades: The Secrets of Successful Students: Science-Based Strategies to Boost Memory, Strengthen Focus, and Study Faster

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Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

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Summary of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

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The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 4th Edition

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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

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The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively

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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

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Summary: The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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How To Talk To Anyone: 51 Easy Conversation Topics You Can Use to Talk to Anyone Effortlessly

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Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel - Book Summary: The Science of Successful Learning

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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies

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Summary: It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle By Mark Wolynn: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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Summary: The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. by Robin Sharma: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021): An interview with Jonas Peters

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Developmentally Appropriate Kindergarten: An Interview with Christopher P. Brown: An Interview with Christopher P Brown of the University of Texas at Austin.

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23. Mass producing obedience in public schools: Does the environment of the public school system limit individual thought, new ideas and innovation?

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Hoover Book Club: The Great School Rethink | Michael Hartney and Rick Hess | Hoover Institution: August 15, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Join the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing...

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Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski, “The Public School Advantage” (University of Chicago Press, 2013): Conventional thinking tells us that private school education is better than public schooling in the US. Why else would parents pay the hefty price tag often associate with private education, especially at very elite schools? But, Dr.

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Xueli Wang, "On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways" (Harvard Education Press, 2020): For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

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Xueli Wang, "On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways" (Harvard Education Press, 2020): For decades, the shortage of STEM talents has been a national concern in the United States...

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S4 E6: Public Education is in Crisis. Are Elected School Boards the Problem?

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School is a Verb with Amy Valentine Transformative Principal 356: , Leader at has been called a social rabble rouser, a turnaround strategist and a fighter of the status quo in K–12 education. She has served as a teacher, school leader and executive director.  Gives scholarships to students and grants to...

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Hope, Faith, & Community

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#231 Just Shut Up and Teach? with Alfred Shivy Brooks (pt.1): Hello everyone! Today, educators are under more scrutiny than they have been in many years. Not only are people rallying together to fight what they feel like is Critical Race Theory, but they are also signing laws that prevent certain texts from being...

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Be it Resolved, teaching gender identity has no place in the k-5 school curriculum

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Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022): An interview with Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor

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Challenging the Status Quo in the Classroom and Beyond: On episode 212, Emily Kircher-Morris and Jess Lahey discuss the importance of understanding and supporting neurodivergent students. Jess highlights the need for teachers to question traditional teaching methods and adapt their practices to meet the...

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Michael B. Horn, "Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life" (Jossey-Bass, 2019): What if everything we tell each other – and ourselves – about why we choose college isn’t true? Is higher education an ideal, a personal goal, or might it be a “job-to-be-done?”

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Homeschooling: A Guidebook of Practices, Claims, Issues, and Implications: An interview with Jameson Brewer

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Managing the anxiety tied to COVID-19, virtual learning, and school/college reopenings with the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Media Committee: Psychcast host Lorenzo Norris, MD, talks with members of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Media Committee about how to help patients navigate the uncertainties associated with educating K-12 and college students during the pandemic. The...

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Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy, “The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education” (Routledge, 2014): Contemporary American political culture is arguably more divisive than ever before. Blue states are bluer, red states are redder, and purple states are becoming harder and harder to find. Because of this divisiveness,

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Stanley S. Litow and Tina Kelley, "Breaking Barriers: How P-Tech Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career" (Teachers College Press, 2021): An interview with Stanley S. Litow and Tina Kelley

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Civic learning amid the culture wars: In honor of Civic Learning Week, we explore the promise of civics education to help us move through disagreements about teaching race, gender, and other hot-button issues.

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Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)

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Fixing Public Schools: Ted Dintersmith: “Set the conditions that lead to great learning.”

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Better Schools Through Parent Empowerment: Parents and caregivers have the potential to be key drivers of school improvement. However, who makes up that empowered group is a key question. Aurelio Montemayor has been organizing parents for decades, and he joins us to share his experience and advice.

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Citizenship, patriotism, and democracy in the classroom [rebroadcast]: While we take a holiday break, we are going back into the archives to rebroadcast a few of our favorite episodes from earlier this year. This one originally aired in September. As a piece in The Atlantic recently noted, democracy is not natural. Becoming a democratic citizen involves a set of behaviors that need to be learned … Continue reading Citizenship, patriotism, and democracy in the classroom [rebroadcast] →

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60 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Equal Educational Access Remains Elusive: May 17th, 2014 marked the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court Decision that held state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students as unconstitutional because they violate the Equal...

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#176 Where’s the Change for Black Lives in Education? with Dr. Manuel Rustin (pt.1): Hello everyone! Today, we are tackling some big and important topics. We are discussing the lives of our students, the importance of having a curriculum that shows that black lives matter, and asking, what happened to the change so often touted by educ...

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Stanley S. Litow and Tina Kelley, "Breaking Barriers: How P-Tech Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career" (Teachers College Press, 2021)

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Managing an Increasingly Diverse and Unequal Education System with Dr. Erica Turner: As our country becomes increasingly racially diverse and socioeconomically unequal, schools are often the first public institutions addressing those changes.  Dr. Erica Turner has studied how district level leaders have dealt with this, and wrote about it in her book, Suddenly Diverse, How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality.  She joins us to share some of what she found.

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Rick Hess and Mike McShane on Getting Education Right

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#232 Doing What It Takes (Alfred Shivy Brooks pt.2): Hello everyone! Today, educators are under more scrutiny than they have been in many years. Not only are people rallying together to fight what they feel like is Critical Race Theory, but they are also signing laws that prevent certain texts from being...