Black teachers: How to recruit them and make them stay
Lessons in higher education: What California can learn
Keeping California public university options open
Superintendents: Well-paid and walking away
The debt to degree connection
College in prison: How earning a degree can lead to a new life
This week: We discuss retiring CSU Chancellor Timothy White’s impact and why two competing taxes on the November 2020 ballot would be problematic.
This week: Tim Shriver, a pioneer in the burgeoning field of social-emotional learning, tells why it’s essential and what it looks like when done well.
This week: We explore confounding math test scores with Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s CEO and evidence of adversity facing black youths in LA.
This week: We review Fair Pay to Play, California’s law on behalf of college athletes, and Gov. Newsom’s role in forging a charter school compromise.
This week: We take a look at how students and teachers are helping to raise awareness, and shape action in the fight against global warming.
This week: We interview Jesus Sanchez, a community organizer and founder of Gente Organizada, and Iris Villalpando, a student leader, about why they fought so hard to change spending priorities in Pomona Unified School District; and we speak with reporter Zaidee Stavely about a bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk that would require every school to offer at least one full-day kindergarten class.
This week: We interview Jeff Vincent, of the Center for Cities + Schools at UC Berkeley, about whether the proposed $15 billion bond measure will solve funding inequities; and we interview Laura Schifter, the policy director of a new coalition, ED2020, whose goal is to persuade presidential candidates.
This week: We interview Michael Kirst, the former president of the State Board of Education, about why adopting a ranking system for district and charter schools can be arbitrary and unhelpful; and we also discuss the possibility of a state construction bond for K-12 and community college facilities on the March 2020 ballot.
This week: We discuss big changes that could affect the state’s charter school law; and we also interview two key players with opposite perspectives on a controversial proposal by the California State University chancellor’s office to require a fourth year of math.
This week: We interview David Kirp about his new book, The College Dropout Scandal; and we chat with Cal State Long Beach President Jane Conoley about efforts, starting in local high schools with the Long Beach Promise, to build an institutional culture that helps students to pursue and thrive in college.
