EdSource Podcasts

This Week in California Education

Pros, cons and confusion over $15 billion construction bond

February 28, 2020

This week: Jeff  Vincent, director of the Center for Cities and Schools at UC Berkeley, explains what Prop 13 would do and how the money would be distributed; and Chris Funk, superintendent of East Side Union High School District, lays out the case for teacher housing.

This Week in California Education

Dual enrollment’s great promise; also, #MeToo movement in high school

February 15, 2020

This week: Leslie Hsu Freeman, manager of dual enrollment for Oakland Unified, describes Oakland’s dual enrollment program and the value it brings for first-generation college students; and we discuss the weeklong protests at Berkeley High.

This Week in California Education

A surprise recommendation to keep using test scores for UC admission

February 7, 2020

This week: EdSource reporter Larry Gordon summarizes a new UC faculty task force report that recommends requiring the SAT or ACT for freshmen admissions; and Michele Siqueiros, president of the Campaign for College Opportunity, shares why the organization opposes the use of the tests.