The Education Exchange

Thomas Kane, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how school districts have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and how districts need to pivot from short-term recovery to long-term strategies to improve student outcomes. The latest edition of the Education Recovery Scorecard is available now. https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/

Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Macedo's new book, "In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us."

Steven Wilson, a Senior Fellow at Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Wilson's new book, The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America.

Jennifer Hochschild, the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Hochschild's latest book, "Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat."

Adam Gamoran, the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Trump Administration's contract cancellations will effect the Institute of Education Sciences.

Nick Melvoin, member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how LAUSD have responded to the Palisades wildfires, and reactions to the latest NAEP results in the district.

Brian Kisida, an associate professor at the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, University of Missouri, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how much critical race theory has made an impact in America's schools. "Bridging the Divide over Critical Race Theory in America’s Classrooms," co-written by Kisida, Gary Ritter, Jennifer Gontram, J. Cameron Anglum, Heidi H. Erickson, Darnell Leatherwood and Matthew H. Lee, is available now at EducationNext.org.

Clint Bolick, the 44th Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Supreme Court agreeing to take up the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond case, and what it could mean for the future of charter schools and religious education in the United States.

Martin R. West, the editor-in-chief of Education Next and member of the National Assessment Governing Board, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the latest release of National Assessment of Educational Progress data.

Andrew Perloff, a freelance writer and producer and the co-host of the nationally syndicated sports-radio program "The Maggie and Perloff Show," joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the name, image and likeness space is making its way from college athletics into the high school realm. "The Marketing of High School Athletes: A Rolling Tide," is available now at EducationNext.org. https://www.educationnext.org/marketing-of-high-school-athletes-a-rolling-tide-name-image-likeness